Reviews tagging 'Gore'

It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood

3 reviews

zanm's review against another edition

5.0

Wow. Cried. At the risk of sounding like an asshole: There’s not a new story here, but it’s told in a new way. It’s told in an honest way. It literally felt like I was reading someone’s diary or my own diary. It’s messiness is cathartic. Something I will probably read again many many years later.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Body horror, Gore, and Vomit

spooderman's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Cursing, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Drug use, Drug abuse, Bullying, and Body shaming

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Ableism, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, and Vomit

Minor: Excrement, Pregnancy, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Grief, Dysphoria, Domestic abuse, Classism, Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Car accident, Physical abuse, Medical content, Infertility, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Gun violence, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Eating disorder, Child death, and Addiction

mooon's review

dark funny reflective fast-paced

2.5

The art has arguably some of the most creative visual narrative compositions I've seen in any comic. Really highly recommend it if that's what you're interested in.

The story itself is self-aware but lacks any definitive statement or clear progression from the author. It rightly mocks the, "It's okay to not be okay," dogma, then confusingly concludes with ambiguity. She essentializes mental health and anti-social behavior without a good analysis or understanding of the material/social conditions that create it, rather getting partway there at the very end to that analysis. While not an inherently bad thing, it ends up being a frustrating and rather pessimistic work on the whole that fits into the meta-narrative of societally deteriorating mental health due to the crumbling social conditions in our neoliberal, capitalist hellscape. Not very original work, but presented very originally.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Suicidal thoughts