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The Panic: Ten Survivors
Ten strangers, trapped beneath the Hudson River, are forced to depend on their fellow commuters in order to survive an apocalyptic event. Those left must fight their way through more than rubble to make it to safety. But the darkness is closing in, and with it their own individual fears and paranoia. It’ll be a long road to the end of the tunnel…that is, if they don’t kill each other before they get there.
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124 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 8, 2022
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October 22, 2022
*Thanks to Edelweiss and the publisher for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review.*
A poorly constructed bore of a comic.
Its attempts to remain politically correct and excessive commitment to social commentary largely impeded on the cohesiveness of the plot. There’s nothing wrong with being politically correct, but this was the kind of comic that only served an agenda because it attempted to show different perspectives on inflammatory and dividing topics and then specifically pointed at one side of the argument and labelled it as wrong despite its valid aspects. It was distasteful and uncomfortable to see, especially because the topics were so relevant to today’s society.
On top of that, there were far too many characters and the art was alright, but the style made it difficult to make out which character was which so the entire time was filled with confusion and purposefully woke dialogue that was interchangeable between about five different characters. And the vagueness extended beyond just the characters, it was prevalent within the plot too. For the most part this was a story about a train crash (why the train crashed; who knows!), it was only by the last issue that we saw that there was apparently more to the destruction before the story abruptly ended. I could not for the life of me pinpoint what the supposed great disaster that occurred at the start was. It was never explained nor explored and so it was hard to gauge exactly how the destruction had affected the outer world or even just the city they were in. And that meant that all the danger and stress the characters were shown to be going through felt exaggerated and unrealistic.
Then there was the random romance, the random violence, the random cannibalism: it was like the writer just threw a bunch of concepts in a bag, shook it till it was mush and then poured the lumpy muck all over these pages. It was a mess and, quite frankly, nonsensical.
A poorly constructed bore of a comic.
Its attempts to remain politically correct and excessive commitment to social commentary largely impeded on the cohesiveness of the plot. There’s nothing wrong with being politically correct, but this was the kind of comic that only served an agenda because it attempted to show different perspectives on inflammatory and dividing topics and then specifically pointed at one side of the argument and labelled it as wrong despite its valid aspects. It was distasteful and uncomfortable to see, especially because the topics were so relevant to today’s society.
On top of that, there were far too many characters and the art was alright, but the style made it difficult to make out which character was which so the entire time was filled with confusion and purposefully woke dialogue that was interchangeable between about five different characters. And the vagueness extended beyond just the characters, it was prevalent within the plot too. For the most part this was a story about a train crash (why the train crashed; who knows!), it was only by the last issue that we saw that there was apparently more to the destruction before the story abruptly ended. I could not for the life of me pinpoint what the supposed great disaster that occurred at the start was. It was never explained nor explored and so it was hard to gauge exactly how the destruction had affected the outer world or even just the city they were in. And that meant that all the danger and stress the characters were shown to be going through felt exaggerated and unrealistic.
Then there was the random romance, the random violence, the random cannibalism: it was like the writer just threw a bunch of concepts in a bag, shook it till it was mush and then poured the lumpy muck all over these pages. It was a mess and, quite frankly, nonsensical.
April 18, 2023
Oh dear, this book is bad. It's like a book-long bottle episode, where a group of characters are forced to remain in one place. Something has happened to New York, and a group of New Yorkers get stuck underground in the subway.
These characters are beyond caricatures and seem to barely react to the predicament they're in - so a lot of time is wasted on fake-sounding arguments. We get a Black woman who behaves like Fox News thinks woke people behave - ridiculously argumentative about things that have nothing to do with escaping a collapsed subway. To fake-balance things out, we get a MAGA-hat wearing white guy, and more fake arguments.
It is never revealed what has exactly happened, which is fine, Kleid is saving that for a volume 2, which I can't imagine happening. The characters keep chattering inanely, and behave like no humans behave in such a situation.
Mutti's art is okay, very pedestrian, dragged down by Mutti's patented watercolours, which give everything a washed out look, that makes everything dull to look at.
(Thanks to Dark Horse Books for providing me with a review copy through Edelweiss)
These characters are beyond caricatures and seem to barely react to the predicament they're in - so a lot of time is wasted on fake-sounding arguments. We get a Black woman who behaves like Fox News thinks woke people behave - ridiculously argumentative about things that have nothing to do with escaping a collapsed subway. To fake-balance things out, we get a MAGA-hat wearing white guy, and more fake arguments.
It is never revealed what has exactly happened, which is fine, Kleid is saving that for a volume 2, which I can't imagine happening. The characters keep chattering inanely, and behave like no humans behave in such a situation.
Mutti's art is okay, very pedestrian, dragged down by Mutti's patented watercolours, which give everything a washed out look, that makes everything dull to look at.
(Thanks to Dark Horse Books for providing me with a review copy through Edelweiss)
November 6, 2022
Currently available on Kindle Unlimited, this is the first omnibus in what appears to be a post-apocalyptic series. Something has happened above ground and a bunch of people in the underground survive the carnage. They struggle their way to the surface but this volume ends before we discover what they find there. Not the most original of premises.
Overall, this was a complete mess.
The story writing tries to be contemporary by bringing in just about every topic of the USA’s ongoing culture wars, but I really cannot see the survivors of a disaster bickering as these people do rather than attempting to survive. None of the characters are plausible let alone sympathetic, and of course there must be a psychopath or two in the group, as if survival didn’t present enough dramatic content.
The art is poor. The characters are not distinct, the backgrounds are only sketched - okay, I get it they are in the dark - and nothing much works to my eye.
I managed to finish it, but certainly won’t read it again or seek out the rest of the series.
Overall, this was a complete mess.
The story writing tries to be contemporary by bringing in just about every topic of the USA’s ongoing culture wars, but I really cannot see the survivors of a disaster bickering as these people do rather than attempting to survive. None of the characters are plausible let alone sympathetic, and of course there must be a psychopath or two in the group, as if survival didn’t present enough dramatic content.
The art is poor. The characters are not distinct, the backgrounds are only sketched - okay, I get it they are in the dark - and nothing much works to my eye.
I managed to finish it, but certainly won’t read it again or seek out the rest of the series.
August 28, 2023
Initially, there seems to be a good sound premise for this graphic novel but it absolutely FLOPS.
November 29, 2022
A subway train derails while going under the river into Manhattan. It's post-Pandemic and there's all kinds of arguments from both the Left and the Right about utterly pointless things when their goal should be getting out from under the river. Nothing is explained, especially the terribly ambivalent ending. It's just all thrown together with no coherency.
Andrea Mutti's pencils are fine. His coloring is not. It's so muted and flat that it's difficult to tell who's who. The book is tense without a purpose. Within 2 issues, I was just checking the page count to see how long before I could put this turkey down.
Andrea Mutti's pencils are fine. His coloring is not. It's so muted and flat that it's difficult to tell who's who. The book is tense without a purpose. Within 2 issues, I was just checking the page count to see how long before I could put this turkey down.
March 1, 2024
Well, the story was somewhat interesting, at least at first. There’s ultimately no explanation for what caused this series of events though, which is pretty frustrating, and the characters (who are annoying stereotypes for the most part, but there is some attempt at breaking those late-game) seem to just bicker over nothing while faced with mortal danger. Also, the artwork layout can be pretty confusing, with text needed to explain what actually happened in some situations. Overall, it’s not bad, but it’s nothing particularly memorable, either.
March 26, 2023
This was a very disjointed graphic novel. The art-style made it difficult to recognize the characters, which made the story difficult to follow. The questions were not answered and the conflict was not resolved, but not in an interesting way that made me desperate to read and know more. I love apocalypse stories, but this one fell very flat.
October 26, 2022
trigger warning
When Annie is on her way to a Black Lives Matter protest, the train derails and she is trapped with nine fellow strangers.
Apt title, emotions are running high and they have to try to forget all their differences to find a way out. Works both as a standalone and as entrypoint for a longer story, but I am going to treat it as a standalone.
While it does what it set out to do, I really was not in the mood for this, so I am unsure how to rate this and would settle at a neutral three stars.
The arc was provided by the publisher.
When Annie is on her way to a Black Lives Matter protest, the train derails and she is trapped with nine fellow strangers.
Apt title, emotions are running high and they have to try to forget all their differences to find a way out. Works both as a standalone and as entrypoint for a longer story, but I am going to treat it as a standalone.
While it does what it set out to do, I really was not in the mood for this, so I am unsure how to rate this and would settle at a neutral three stars.
The arc was provided by the publisher.
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