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Daisy
A graphic novel masterpiece of modern horror, Colin Lorimer’s Daisy springs from the apocalyptic Book of Enoch, excluded from biblical canon and disclosing the war of angels and Man’s introduction to violence, corruption, and evil.
A desperate mother’s search for her missing son leads to the mysterious family of Daisy Phillips. Like many teens, Daisy has a hard time fitting in, but for atypical Daisy stands over eight feet tall and believes herself descended from cannibalistic giants spawned from the outcasts of Heaven. This frail, disfigured youth may hold the key to unlock the Language of Creation—the divine DNA of God—and expose the monstrous lie hidden within Creation itself.
Collects Daisy #1–#5.
A desperate mother’s search for her missing son leads to the mysterious family of Daisy Phillips. Like many teens, Daisy has a hard time fitting in, but for atypical Daisy stands over eight feet tall and believes herself descended from cannibalistic giants spawned from the outcasts of Heaven. This frail, disfigured youth may hold the key to unlock the Language of Creation—the divine DNA of God—and expose the monstrous lie hidden within Creation itself.
Collects Daisy #1–#5.
144 pages, Hardcover
Published November 8, 2022
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About the author
Colin Lorimer
62 books29 followersCOLIN LORIMER is a comic book writer and artist. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book The Hunt (Image Comics), and UXB (Dark Horse) and has co-created and worked on quite a few other properties including, The X-Files, Harvest, Hellraiser, Curse, and The Prisoner. His latest book DAISY is out now from Dark Horse Comics.
Colin is also an illustrator, conceptual artist, and award-winning story artist for film and television. Projects would include Jame's Gunn's Peacemaker, The Last of Us, Hestrom, The Stand, 50 States of Fear, Riverdale, The Exorcist, Alpha, Light of my Life, Timmy Failure, Flora and Ulysses, Peter Pan and Wendy, and many more.
Colin is also an illustrator, conceptual artist, and award-winning story artist for film and television. Projects would include Jame's Gunn's Peacemaker, The Last of Us, Hestrom, The Stand, 50 States of Fear, Riverdale, The Exorcist, Alpha, Light of my Life, Timmy Failure, Flora and Ulysses, Peter Pan and Wendy, and many more.
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October 20, 2022
Well, that was creepy. I enjoyed it, though I have quibbles: for one thing, this should've been longer so the story could be more fleshed out, there are parts that would've benefited from more explanation. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it though (with caveats) - it's an interesting take on God and Heaven versus fallen angels and their spawn. It brought the horror in a creepy way, which I love, and with plenty of gore, which I tolerate to a certain point, and this got close to that in a few places, so be warned. Also, there's a story element that hints at ableism, in which the children of fallen angels and humans are cursed, which makes them disfigured and disabled. I don't feel it was meant to conflate being disabled or disfigured with being cursed other than in reference to these children within the story, but I can't pretend it couldn't be taken that way. So, really good and interesting concept, could've been executed a bit better, I'd recommend it but it does have issues.
May 20, 2022
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It started to great only to go a very ableist road. You see, the people in here are cursed and that is what causes disability and deformity. Children are "dirty of soul" which is represented by hideousness.
The plot deals with book of Enoch and the nephilim, children of angels and humans - aforementioned cursed children, and attempts to lift the curse which in itself is a cool idea for a story, but the execution is iffy as heck.
The arc was provided by the publisher.
It started to great only to go a very ableist road. You see, the people in here are cursed and that is what causes disability and deformity. Children are "dirty of soul" which is represented by hideousness.
The plot deals with book of Enoch and the nephilim, children of angels and humans - aforementioned cursed children, and attempts to lift the curse which in itself is a cool idea for a story, but the execution is iffy as heck.
The arc was provided by the publisher.
February 13, 2023
Engaging and interesting story. Loved the art. Now I just want more story.
May 16, 2025
I knew I was playing with fire for this one, but it was just too heretical. Once they turned God into the villain, I could not in good conscience give this more than a one.
January 12, 2023
Wait, this is the complete story !?!? I 100% thought this was volume 1 of a longer tale, but nope. Apparently this was originally released in comic book format with 5 total, while this hardcover version is all 5 comics. I am so freaking bamboozled right now.
Before finding out that this book is the entire story I was ready to give this 4 stars. I don't fully understand what's going on, but I figured that was going to be elaborated on in later volumes, and we'd get more answers. Well, I guess not. Knowing that this is it completely changes my rating, as I have no idea wtf just happened.
The art in this is insanely impressive, and I'd honestly love to give it more stars based on the art alone, but I just can't do that. At the beginning of the book there were a few pages that I just stared at for awhile, taking it all in. This is a brutal book, and the art reflects that. The scenes are very intense, and the art very much brings it to life. Unfortunately, the story just completely drops the ball here.
Before finding out that this book is the entire story I was ready to give this 4 stars. I don't fully understand what's going on, but I figured that was going to be elaborated on in later volumes, and we'd get more answers. Well, I guess not. Knowing that this is it completely changes my rating, as I have no idea wtf just happened.
The art in this is insanely impressive, and I'd honestly love to give it more stars based on the art alone, but I just can't do that. At the beginning of the book there were a few pages that I just stared at for awhile, taking it all in. This is a brutal book, and the art reflects that. The scenes are very intense, and the art very much brings it to life. Unfortunately, the story just completely drops the ball here.
August 10, 2022
This has the potential to be a good story, but it needs at list twice as many pages to tell it well.
There are mythology elements here that are really cool and I like seeing them in a story, but if I didn't already know about the book of Enoch or the concept of a demiurge then I would've been totally lost.
The town and its devotion to Father needs at least a little explaining. I don't know enough to care that it was ripped apart by an army of undead woodland creatures.
And finally the ending clearly built up to a really interesting place, but it's inconclusive. I hate vague endings. Did the world get rewritten? Did killing Father stop Daisy from becoming the new God? What even is the relevance of the last couple of pages?
It really does just move too fast. I've been noticing a tendency in comics to try to cover a story arc in five issues and it's really not serving some of the comics being released these days.
There are mythology elements here that are really cool and I like seeing them in a story, but if I didn't already know about the book of Enoch or the concept of a demiurge then I would've been totally lost.
The town and its devotion to Father needs at least a little explaining. I don't know enough to care that it was ripped apart by an army of undead woodland creatures.
And finally the ending clearly built up to a really interesting place, but it's inconclusive. I hate vague endings. Did the world get rewritten? Did killing Father stop Daisy from becoming the new God? What even is the relevance of the last couple of pages?
It really does just move too fast. I've been noticing a tendency in comics to try to cover a story arc in five issues and it's really not serving some of the comics being released these days.
October 4, 2022
Daisy is a much darker book than the others on this list, and defintiely falls into the realm of horror. Telling the story of a woman searching for her missing son, who’s been gone for years, we learn about a small town and the strange religion that they’ve developed. Daisy Phillips is a giant of a girl, towering feet above those around her. She’s been told that she’s descended from angels, and that she may hold the key to speaking the language of God, which will enable her to reshape reality.
The biggest problem is she, and the rest of the town’s children, don’t want to be pawns in the religious experiments of the adults, and they’re tired of being used, changed into twisted, painful forms. With the help of this now desperate mother, and magic from beyond our world, Daisy believes that she will be able to go against the church and their charismatic leader.
Daisy is an odd story. It’s steeped in Christian religious mythology, and tries to do some of its own things, creating this weird kind of hybrid between things that feel familiar, and things that seem wholly unique. There are times that the narrative seems to be trying to make a point about religious fervour, of how cult-like followings can harm innocent people, with literal children forced to live in agony here. But the book never really fully commits itself, and tries to walk this line between that and religious dogma being real. Perhaps one of the worst things, for myself, that Colin Lorimer does here, however, is to make the people who have been cursed because of their ‘dark souls’ be deformed and disabled. It feels incredibly ableist to say that those with physical deformities, those who use mobility aids and limb braces, are the way they are because God looked at them and saw they were evil and wanted the outside to reflect that. It didn’t sit right with me at all.
The book’s visuals are very good, and Colin Lorimer also provides the art along with colourist Joana Lafvente, and there are some truly visually disturbing scenes, such as monstrous biblical giants, undead animals, and people without skin. The book embraces the gore and the visceral horror, and puts those images front and centre. Whilst I personally found parts of the narrative hard to understand, and did not like the ableist parts of the book, some horror fans might enjoy it.
The biggest problem is she, and the rest of the town’s children, don’t want to be pawns in the religious experiments of the adults, and they’re tired of being used, changed into twisted, painful forms. With the help of this now desperate mother, and magic from beyond our world, Daisy believes that she will be able to go against the church and their charismatic leader.
Daisy is an odd story. It’s steeped in Christian religious mythology, and tries to do some of its own things, creating this weird kind of hybrid between things that feel familiar, and things that seem wholly unique. There are times that the narrative seems to be trying to make a point about religious fervour, of how cult-like followings can harm innocent people, with literal children forced to live in agony here. But the book never really fully commits itself, and tries to walk this line between that and religious dogma being real. Perhaps one of the worst things, for myself, that Colin Lorimer does here, however, is to make the people who have been cursed because of their ‘dark souls’ be deformed and disabled. It feels incredibly ableist to say that those with physical deformities, those who use mobility aids and limb braces, are the way they are because God looked at them and saw they were evil and wanted the outside to reflect that. It didn’t sit right with me at all.
The book’s visuals are very good, and Colin Lorimer also provides the art along with colourist Joana Lafvente, and there are some truly visually disturbing scenes, such as monstrous biblical giants, undead animals, and people without skin. The book embraces the gore and the visceral horror, and puts those images front and centre. Whilst I personally found parts of the narrative hard to understand, and did not like the ableist parts of the book, some horror fans might enjoy it.
September 25, 2022
Deals with very complex subject matter that has been written about so many times before… but this one really did bring something new to the table. Really impressed by its originality. A very heady story. Highly recommended!
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January 4, 2023uhhhh what the fuck
June 25, 2023
The artwork was good but I would have preferred it to be very slightly more detailed.
August 20, 2023
Excellent graphics and great twisty tale.
July 28, 2025
Had a lot of trouble following this, if I’m honest. Beautiful art, though.
November 28, 2025
jesus christ I have no idea what I just read. bible fanfiction involving the book of enoch, crazy confusing with an art style I couldn't get behind.
January 8, 2026
Interesting premise and start to the 5 book series.
December 6, 2022
An enlightening read. I had no idea that The Book of Enoch existed and was at one point a book of the Bible. A lot of information is covered in the book with so many twists and turns that I feel the book could have benefited with a few extra chapters. Still, really enjoyed it and the art is wonderful!
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