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georgioporgio 's review for:
The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1
by James Tynion IV, James Tynion IV, Jordie Bellaire
3.0 Stars Volume 1 collects issues #1-6 of the comic which ran as a 12-issue limited series. This won the 2022 Eisner Award for Best New Series which is usually a good indicator of a worth while read. I'm a fan of James Tynion's other series Something is Killing the Children so I was really looking forward to checking this out.
I had no idea what the plot was and I'm glad I didn't because this story is wild. The author is taking big swings with the story and volume 1 sets up a lot of interesting ideas but it's still only the first half of the story. At this point the story could still go either way for me.
It's a new twist on a familiar premise: A group of people are invited to spend a week at a huge estate by their mutual friend/acquaintance. Not all is as it seems. I expected this to be a murder mystery or a ghost story. It wasn't. It completely subverted my expectations with something new and different, but still claustrophobic and unsettling.
My biggest issue so far is that for a 12 issue series there are a lot of characters being juggled. Immediately there are 11 characters introduced. Each issue seems to tackle the story from a different perspective so I'm slowly getting to know who these people are but keeping them straight has been challenging.
I had no idea what the plot was and I'm glad I didn't because this story is wild. The author is taking big swings with the story and volume 1 sets up a lot of interesting ideas but it's still only the first half of the story. At this point the story could still go either way for me.
It's a new twist on a familiar premise: A group of people are invited to spend a week at a huge estate by their mutual friend/acquaintance. Not all is as it seems. I expected this to be a murder mystery or a ghost story. It wasn't. It completely subverted my expectations with something new and different, but still claustrophobic and unsettling.
My biggest issue so far is that for a 12 issue series there are a lot of characters being juggled. Immediately there are 11 characters introduced. Each issue seems to tackle the story from a different perspective so I'm slowly getting to know who these people are but keeping them straight has been challenging.