A review by holdenkillfield
Incredible Doom by Matthew Bogart, Jesse Holden

4.0

I was completely surprised by this graphic novel as I had no clue what to expect from it. The blurb was just enough to get me to pick it up and I am happy that it did not reveal much more than that so I could be caught off-guard for my enjoyment of this touching story. The color scheme and minimal artwork which was very well done invoked a sense of dread and isolation and I could connect with the turmoil and trials that each teenager was going through. In the early times of the internet with BBS and finally the arrival of AOL, I did connect through the phone line and could remember the nostalgia of begging parents and siblings to get off the phone line for my personal use. I remember the world that was opened to me through Instant Messenger (IMs) and chat rooms; it was a wild time and this novel encapsulated it perfectly as well as what it is to finally find a place of belonging, both online and IRL.