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unladylike's review against another edition
4.0
This series is so much fun if you can handle the extreme nihilism. The main characters have absolutely no care for human life and will kill/possess them flippantly for brief amusement.
I had a date over the other night and they recognized that I was playing the soundtrack from Hotline Miami, an indie computer game that became a cult favorite a few years back. The soundtrack is fantastic but I never got past the first few levels. My datefriend explained that it's really not an action game, even though it's about constantly running around killing lots of people; "It's a puzzle game."
Similarly, Demon is a puzzle game akin to Hotline Miami, in comic book form. Its most interesting sections consist of elaborate mathematical problems for how this father and daughter can survive together. But at this point they're a couple hundred years old, everything is boring, and survival for them often involves lots of killing of normal humans.
The ending of this volume is great, and I'm excited to see how the series ends in Vol. 4 (assuming that really is the end).
I had a date over the other night and they recognized that I was playing the soundtrack from Hotline Miami, an indie computer game that became a cult favorite a few years back. The soundtrack is fantastic but I never got past the first few levels. My datefriend explained that it's really not an action game, even though it's about constantly running around killing lots of people; "It's a puzzle game."
Similarly, Demon is a puzzle game akin to Hotline Miami, in comic book form. Its most interesting sections consist of elaborate mathematical problems for how this father and daughter can survive together. But at this point they're a couple hundred years old, everything is boring, and survival for them often involves lots of killing of normal humans.
The ending of this volume is great, and I'm excited to see how the series ends in Vol. 4 (assuming that really is the end).
alboyer6's review against another edition
3.0
I'm not really sure how to rate this book. I read volume 1 and then skipped to this 3rd volume. I know I missed things but I was still able to catch up and follow along. Even after the violence of the first volume, the violence in this one jolted me a bit. Shiga can take such deceptively simple looking illustrations and put so much story and gore into them and manage to tell a crazy tale of demon possession, time, death, and betrayal. Good story and great illustrations.
Galley courtesy of publisher and Netgalley.
Galley courtesy of publisher and Netgalley.
rdyourbookcase's review against another edition
3.0
The whole “Demon” series is pretty messed up, but definitely creative and entertaining. I’m interested in seeing how it ends.
mikethepysch's review against another edition
3.0
Maybe this series is going off the rails a bit, but at least I'm reading this with the 4th already awaiting.
mschlat's review against another edition
3.0
At this point, it's difficult to review this without spoilers. I will say that there's a kickass chase sequence that takes up about one-quarter of the book and fully uses the series' premise. The conclusion (with black panels and narration) reminded me of Shiga's minicomic [b:Fleep|9058150|Fleep|Jason Shiga|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1335912018s/9058150.jpg|13936118]. At this point, I'm not really sure where the series is headed, and I'm not sure that's a good thing.
sizrobe's review against another edition
5.0
So good. You can tell the author thought long and hard about immortality and the situations the demonized protagonist got into.
crookedtreehouse's review against another edition
4.0
There's a scene in this volume of Shiga's disturbing immorality immortality play, when the protagonist is explaining to a child how awful the world is. It goes on for several pages without too much change in the art. It a long soliloquy about how age destroys the joy of youth. It's not a terribly original conceit, but when delivered by someone several hundred years old, who has been splitting his life between protecting his daughter and being as hedonistic as possible, often at the expense of others, is really effective.
The expansion of understanding how the demonology works in this book is also really fascinating. And the ending brought out a whole new level of Whatthefuckness, which is impressive, given that this series started with a guy repeatedly killing himself after the death of his family.
The only drawback was that the book jumps over three hundred years between the end of volume two and the middle of volume three, and yet the world looks exactly the same. It actually looks a bit late twentieth century. It didn't ruin the story or anything, it just briefly pulled me out of the narrative to think that the world would be so similar in 2400, given how the world has changed in the mere forty years I've been alive.
Everything else about this book is top-notch Shiga, and I can't wait to see how he concludes this series. (But I can wait. I'd rather read the books than check out the already completed webseries.)
The expansion of understanding how the demonology works in this book is also really fascinating. And the ending brought out a whole new level of Whatthefuckness, which is impressive, given that this series started with a guy repeatedly killing himself after the death of his family.
The only drawback was that the book jumps over three hundred years between the end of volume two and the middle of volume three, and yet the world looks exactly the same. It actually looks a bit late twentieth century. It didn't ruin the story or anything, it just briefly pulled me out of the narrative to think that the world would be so similar in 2400, given how the world has changed in the mere forty years I've been alive.
Everything else about this book is top-notch Shiga, and I can't wait to see how he concludes this series. (But I can wait. I'd rather read the books than check out the already completed webseries.)
orangerful's review against another edition
5.0
Something is very wrong with Jason Shiga and I am so happy he writes this demented series that is totally messed up but so much fun to read. I was cracking up while reading this because it just gets so off the wall ridiculous.
pmileham's review against another edition
3.0
I thought this was going to be a low point, but the last chapter brought me right back in.