Reviews tagging 'Deadnaming'

The Nice House on the Lake Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV

13 reviews

raidingkvatch's review against another edition

dark

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol, Deadnaming, and Dysphoria

nerdysread's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

J’ai surkiffé franchement. Je savais que je n’allais pas être déçu avec James Tynion IV. L’histoire est super intéressante, le mystère aussi. Il y a tout un cast de persos mec queer et des persos racisés, et une meuf trans et sans que ce soit le gros truc de l’histoire (ça doit gérer la fin du monde en même temps). C’est vraiment interessantX surtout avec les différentes timeline. 

Après j’avoue que dans le passé on voit beaucoup Norah pré-transition et son dead-name aussi. Je pense c’est le truc qui m’a vraiment fait tiquer, le deadname n’était pas obligatoire quand on la voyait au passé

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Deadnaming and Gun violence

jazhandz's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Gore, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Deadnaming, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood

Minor: Self harm and Suicide attempt

In re: self harm and the suicide attempt,

A character realizes that everyone at the house has a healing factor. In order to test this, he uses a razor to cut his arms (off-panel, although his bloody arms are shown later) and then his throat (on-panel, but he cannot die and knows this).

TLDR while the acts of self harm and suicide attempt are present they’re not connected to the typical emotional baggage of those CWs.

raybudbury's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This could potentially be a modern horror classic GN if we’re being real - me, when I eat every DC black label up like it’s a 5 star meal. Mwah.

The art style is lovely and the concept is interesting. I love that it’s a lot of queer characters. I’m so bad at describing how I feel about things but!! It’s honestly a graphic novel I would rec to ppl interested in getting into graphic novels who like horreur + lgbt especially since this is a DC comic (non canon to the main comics obvi) and there’s only like a one sentence mention of superman + plus a username that’s timkon4lyfe mmmm killed me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Violence and Gore

krispy_reading's review

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Boosted from a 4 to a 4.5 after Ashley & Bre’s live show. Plot theories were discussed in length. Made us all feel like the book had a well-developed mystery amongst great artwork. Can’t wait to see the answers revealed in volume 2.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, and Deadnaming

Minor: Grief

face melting, flesh melting, burning

tinyy's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Firstly, I’m a fan of these illustrations. I had my usual hard time of discerning between characters; but the style chosen really lends itself to the horror aspect. Secondly, this was six issues one volume, meaning I got a fair bit of the story from these 200 pages. I expected every plot twist except *one* in the middle but that didn’t deter from my enjoyment. I think some of the character’s reactions to the plot were extremely well done (particularly Molly’s, Sam’s, and David’s) and I loved the LGBT rep! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, and Deadnaming

Moderate: Confinement

lilacwhisker's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Beautiful. The writing and drawings were both phenomenal and kept me hooked the whole time. Even if you don’t read comics very often, you should definitely read this one!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, War, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Genocide, Gore, Self harm, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Deadnaming

spooderman's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Grief, Blood, Confinement, Gore, Body horror, and Cursing

Moderate: Deadnaming and Death of parent

Minor: Outing, Bullying, and Transphobia

howlinglibraries's review against another edition

4.0

 I'm not totally sure how I feel about this. I mean, I enjoyed it, but it ends so smack-dab in the middle of things really picking up that I felt a little jarred by the ending of this first volume. I definitely want to continue the series and I'm incredibly intrigued by the premise, and I need to know more about Walter and what is actually happening outside of the lake house/property.

All of the characters are a little hard to keep apart from one another, which is the main reason I'm only giving this 4 stars: I think a cast of characters this large doesn't work well in a graphic novel unless the art style lends well to telling everyone apart, and that isn't the case here. (They're also mostly obnoxious and fairly unlikable people, which is something I weirdly enjoy in stories, but if you don't, YMMV on the overall storytelling.)

✨ Representation: multiple queer and/or BIPOC characters, one trans character 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Gore

Moderate: Deadnaming

eldritch_archivist's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This was a book I bought from staff recommendations at Powell's with almost no information on what it was about, and I'm really glad I did. It's visually interesting and it feels like there's so much more of the mystery still to unpack. Can't wait for vol. 2 next year. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Cursing, Deadnaming, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Alcohol, Blood, and Gun violence