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A review by jerichajade
Cemetery Kids Don't Die #1 by Daniel Irizarri, Zac Thompson, Brittany Peer
3.0
Cemetery Kids Don't Die is about a video game where people get stuck in the game. This is not a new concept. I have seen it in Are You Afraid of the Dark, Sword Art online, and Dot Hack. The thing that puts people in the game is very weird looking. It has tentacles and looks like a descendant of a face hugger. I found it strange that no one talked about how weird this device was and how creepy it looked.
We follow four teenagers as they lay the game. The dialogue is a bit cringe to me and sometimes it felt like they were younger than teenagers by the way they talked. Their moments where they say mean things to other and are very self-centered which again they are teenagers, but I feel like if they were trying to save a friend, they would try to talk things out. I know how logical of me to think that teens could do something like that. The story starts out after two of the characters have lost their mother and they use the game to get over that trauma. There is a lot of darkness and trauma used for the story. This is not a light hearted read.
Now to the art. Daniel's art is crazy. When in the game the art is gross but beautiful. I was terrified of the puppets and loved that part the comic. I am definitely on the lookout for more of their work.
Thank you to Netgalley and Oni Press for the ARC.
We follow four teenagers as they lay the game. The dialogue is a bit cringe to me and sometimes it felt like they were younger than teenagers by the way they talked. Their moments where they say mean things to other and are very self-centered which again they are teenagers, but I feel like if they were trying to save a friend, they would try to talk things out. I know how logical of me to think that teens could do something like that. The story starts out after two of the characters have lost their mother and they use the game to get over that trauma. There is a lot of darkness and trauma used for the story. This is not a light hearted read.
Now to the art. Daniel's art is crazy. When in the game the art is gross but beautiful. I was terrified of the puppets and loved that part the comic. I am definitely on the lookout for more of their work.
Thank you to Netgalley and Oni Press for the ARC.