"The woods are lovely, dark and deep… " Frost tells us. There is nothing scary in this volume, but why would the reader be scared if no else in this book seems to be worried about what's out there? Everyone has been transported by some unknown force to another planet, they don't know where the rest of civilization is, and there's some kind of monster out there that's already killed one of the students (not a spoiler, happens at the very start), and all these kids are worried about is the stink the backed-up toilets are creating!? The faculty is worried about one of the student council members taking charge and making them look bad so they go into militant mode, creating a bully-system security detail. Six students decide to follow the arrow into the woods to see if they can discover the reason why they've been transported, while the rest of the students and faculty stay behind and grapple with more pressing issues such as no water and backed up toilets.Īnd that's what the biggest problem is for me. The students and faculty find themselves transported to what appears to be another planet. Some kind of arrow unearths itself next to a high school. There's lots of little problems with the structure of the book that keep popping up and once that happens, it's a little hard to enjoy the story for what it is. Collects issues #1-4 of the critically acclaimed series.I wasn't wowed by this. Where are they? Why are they there? The answers will prove stranger than anyone could possibly imagine.
Countless light years away, far outside the bounds of the charted universe, 513 people find themselves in the middle of an ancient, primordial wilderness. WHAT IT'S ABOUT: On October 16, 2013, 437 students, 52 teachers, and 24 additional staff from Bay Point Preparatory High School in suburban Milwaukee, WI vanished without a trace. If you're fan of teen conspiracy comics like Morning Glories, Sheltered, and Revival, you'll immediately be sucked into THE WOODS. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: James Tynion IV is a former protege of BATMAN writer Scott Snyder, so you know he's learned a lot about how to craft a compelling tale.
THE WOODS gives us that same eerie, smalltown horror feel we get whenever we read a Stephen King novel. WHY WE LOVE IT: As fans of James Tynion IV's work in the Batman universe ( BATMAN ETERNAL, RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS), we were eager to publish his first original comic series.
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