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All of them were at that moment in their lives when they could feel themselves pulling away from their other friends; wouldn’t a chance to reconnect be…nice? In The Nice House on the Lake, the overriding anxieties of the 21st century get a terrifying new face—and it might just be the face of the person you once trusted most. Phegley, Kiel (2013-04-30). "Tynion Taps The Horror of "The Eighth Seal" ". CBR . Retrieved 2022-07-13. Andreeva, Nellie (2016-12-02). " 'The Woods' TV Series Based On Boom! Comic In Works At Syfy With Brad Peyton". Deadline . Retrieved 2022-07-13. I think this would work better as a TV series. It's so hard to balance 10+ characters all chit-chatting and living together in a comicbook. I didn't really get to understand any of the characters until the very end. Shout-Out: In Issue 4, David is wearing Ferris Bueller's Iconic Outfit, having apparently requested it from Walter via the notepad.

Pieced together over the six issues, these stories paint a complicated portrait of Walter; a being of immense power conflicted with his own role in the imminent culling of humanity. He admits at one point that he did not think that he would come to like, let alone love, so many of the people he crossed paths with during his time on Earth. Beneath his cool and aloof exterior, there appears to be a war raging inside of Walter; a growing sympathy and compassion for humanity pitted against the ruthless machinations of his unseen superiors. Baggy storytelling.. feels like the same story could've been told a lot more tightly. At least two issues/chapters felt like wheelspinning.

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Reality Warper: The interface that Walter uses to control the house and everything in it seems to be capable of this, able to conjure practically anything the housemates want, construct entire buildings, and bestow a Healing Factor upon them as well as selectively remove or restore memories. It's limitations haven't yet been shown, but it's undeniably a powerful piece of tech. Walter was giving off some serious serial killer vibes all through the first issue so I was pretty sure I knew what was going to happen when he gathered all of his friends together at that lake house.

Johnston, Rich (2022-02-11). "James Tynion IV Shows You Teenage Mad Scientist Christopher Chaos". Bleeding Cool . Retrieved 2022-07-13.Bestselling writer James Tynion IV has changed the face of horror in modern comics! Get ready for the second volume in his most ambitious story yet alongside artist Álvaro Martínez Bueno. Discover the secrets of The Nice House on the Lake! Tynion tweets that this break was planned "well in advance" to give the creative team time to do all twelve issues at a high quality. the camera movements of the mind take it in but not all at once, a shot here, a shot there, swing left swing right, zoom in zoom out, cut. edit. try to put it all together as a narrative, as something that makes sense, some kind of sense, any kind of sense but nonsense; but there is no sense, all of the senses may be working overtime, one two three four five, but nothing is making sense, sense has stopped making sense. in this nice house on the lake. Stars Volume 2 collects issues #7-12 of the comic. This was supposed to be a limited 12 issue series but the ending of this leaves so many questions unresolved that I have to assume there will be more issues. Will I read them though? Probably not.

Bait-and-Switch: The Ryan from the present day is wearing bandages on her face and holding a spear, indicating something bad has happened. She also puts on a N95 respirator, indicating that perhaps there is something toxic in the air...until we get to the beginning of the story and see that she already had the respirator due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. And then there was the explanations of all the machinations behind the scenes. To be honest, I actually feel like I would have enjoyed this more if Tynion and company had actually left this part unexplained and let the readers create their own theories as to what was going on.Trans Tribulations: Norah being trans isn't usually a source of angst, but towards the end of Cycle One it's revealed that she feels Walter never fully got over the fact she's not the "boy" he had a crush on in high school and hasn't really accepted her, on top of her realization about how much he's manipulated her entire life from the moment they met. Walter also transparently uses her dysphoria to manipulate her into helping him by offering her access to the reality controls that can alter the guests' physical forms. Wade, Jessie (2018-07-18). "DC's Witching Hour Event Stars Wonder Woman and the Justice League Dark". IGN . Retrieved 2022-07-13. Coming out in 2021, it was interesting to see the pandemic briefly alluded to, though reading it in 2023 it was difficult to not compare the opening of the book to the film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery as both have an extremely similar, mysterious set-up (and oddly both have someone working on a Democratic Party campaign). There are A LOT of characters, but this guide came in handy: House of Slaughter #1– present (co-written by Tate Brombal, Sam Johns, with Werther Dell'Edera, Chris Shehan, Letizia Cadonici, 2021– present)

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