Created by – Kieran Gillen, Stephanie Hans, Clayton Cowles
Pages – 104
Publishing Information – Image Comics, 12th November 2024
Blurb
A poignant, romantic, and devastating story of a young girl who wakes up to find her world has turned upside down.
Lori wakes to find the streets empty. Everyone has gone. Or at least, nearly everyone. She’s thrown into a world where she has to scrape by in the ruins of civilization, nearly starving, hiding from gangs when …
They arrive.
The award-winning team behind dark fantasy smash DIE release their first stand alone original graphic novel.
Review
We Called Them Giants is a readable and at times thought provoking graphic novel that I left with mixed feelings on.
The illustrations by Stephanie Hans are just beautiful and I really enjoyed savouring the gorgeous colours and designs. This alone makes it worth your time.
I think the post apocalyptic/rapture premise was interesting and I was genuinely really intrigued. Unfortunately the intrigue isn’t satisfied here because I felt like the book was too fast paced. You’re not given time to care about the characters (although sympathetic they’re not particularly endearing) so in this short space of time a character has to be instantly likeable or unfortunately, they become rather forgettable as is the case here.
The alien beings are really interesting and I could sit here all day and say this was interesting or that was interesting… Because all of it was. The problem is that there was no payoff for the interest. The best way I can describe the plot is that it’s like this was a draft storyboard with an overview of some of the key parts, in place of more in-depth events that might be happening we don’t read about.
You could undoubtedly make a great book with the ideas and visuals used here because there are some awesome ideas but compared to the other Image comics I’ve read, this one fell short in the execution, which is a shame because I thought the setting was great.
I’d still recommend this to appreciate the illustrations and because the story is inventive despite the lack of development.
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