Invasive

Had a good roll of horror graphic novels from Oni Press this year and Invasive keeps this run going.

It was the cover of this that initially drew me to it as it is so striking, as is that art throughout the work. Dark and visceral, lending a great deal of weight to the story, a lot of the work is in shadow and the horror is caught in glimpses for the most part.

This was a new direction for me though as I’m not usually a fan of body horror, far more comfortable with cosmic and psychological horror.

A downward spiral into a world of mutilation and surgery, self harm and elective changes, but in this bloodied town we have something even more sinister going on.

Following a mother and a detective ‘on leave’ as they try to get to the bottom of the more sinister side of this world of blades and blood, both with personal reasons to try to find out the truth. For the most part this really worked, especially the weird gas masked surgeons.

Pay off for the whole story was a bit unexpected but still worth the read.

I received this from NetGalley and Oni Press in exchange for an honest review.