Something is Killing the Children Vol. 1
When children begin to go missing in the town of Archer’s Peak, all hope seems lost until a mysterious woman arrives to reveal that terrifying creatures are behind the chaos - and that she alone will destroy them, no matter the cost.
IT’S THE MONSTERS WHO SHOULD BE AFRAID.
When the children of Archer's Peak—a sleepy town in the heart of America—begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories—impossible details of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to be the only one who sees what they can see.
Her name is Erica Slaughter. She kills monsters. That is all she does, and she bears the cost because it must be done.
GLAAD Award-winning writer James Tynion IV (The Woods, Batman: Detective Comics) teams with artist Werther Dell’Edera (Briggs Land) for an all-new story about staring into the abyss.
Collects Something is Killing the Children #1-5.
IT’S THE MONSTERS WHO SHOULD BE AFRAID.
When the children of Archer's Peak—a sleepy town in the heart of America—begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories—impossible details of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to be the only one who sees what they can see.
Her name is Erica Slaughter. She kills monsters. That is all she does, and she bears the cost because it must be done.
GLAAD Award-winning writer James Tynion IV (The Woods, Batman: Detective Comics) teams with artist Werther Dell’Edera (Briggs Land) for an all-new story about staring into the abyss.
Collects Something is Killing the Children #1-5.
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Kick a$$ heroine goes by the name, Erica Slaughter. She carries with her a stuffed animal, an octopus, to be precise. She belongs to an elite group of monster killers. Each of them carry a specific stuffed animal that inhibits an inner monster that instructs then where, when, and how to kill the monster that is killing children.
Erica first meets James, a young boy whose friends all get killed in the forest. He's the assume survivor. Why?
Later the two meet Tommy, Sophie's brother. Sophie is among the missing children. Turns out there's many children within that small town... Missing.
Erica and James goes to a diner that hs barely any customers. She wants to use their table to map things out and diners happen to have the biggest tables. Tommy gets suspicious of Erica and tucks she's the one harming or abducting the children. Tommy thinks she's kidnapped James. Tommy them calls the police on her. They argue and both Erica and James leave.
Add she's at the motel, the owner finds hey to be really strange so he also calls the cops on her. The chips show up and take her down and question her. She turns out around and asks Joe, the commanding officer who was the first child abducted. This will help her pin point where the monster's den.
As she instructs James to stay outside and far away, Tommy shows up and knocks out police officer, Richards, goes into the den to kill Erica. He sees all the dead children in a heap, including his sister, Sophie. In blind rage her shoots but accidentally hits James. Finally both James and Tommy see the monster that killed the kids. Only one child managed to stay alive. Her name is Bian. Her name is not among the missing list. Who is she? She's a girl who was missing, "a long time...a long long time." Erica manages to subside Tommy enough to get him to realize she's a monster Hunter and he needs to get himself and the two kids out while she kills the monster.
All said and done, she's telling into her cell at her organization that she killed the mother but the mother spawned "children." The children are out there. This isn't over...to be continued... Now, getting back to Bian...
Erica first meets James, a young boy whose friends all get killed in the forest. He's the assume survivor. Why?
Later the two meet Tommy, Sophie's brother. Sophie is among the missing children. Turns out there's many children within that small town... Missing.
Erica and James goes to a diner that hs barely any customers. She wants to use their table to map things out and diners happen to have the biggest tables. Tommy gets suspicious of Erica and tucks she's the one harming or abducting the children. Tommy thinks she's kidnapped James. Tommy them calls the police on her. They argue and both Erica and James leave.
Add she's at the motel, the owner finds hey to be really strange so he also calls the cops on her. The chips show up and take her down and question her. She turns out around and asks Joe, the commanding officer who was the first child abducted. This will help her pin point where the monster's den.
As she instructs James to stay outside and far away, Tommy shows up and knocks out police officer, Richards, goes into the den to kill Erica. He sees all the dead children in a heap, including his sister, Sophie. In blind rage her shoots but accidentally hits James. Finally both James and Tommy see the monster that killed the kids. Only one child managed to stay alive. Her name is Bian. Her name is not among the missing list. Who is she? She's a girl who was missing, "a long time...a long long time." Erica manages to subside Tommy enough to get him to realize she's a monster Hunter and he needs to get himself and the two kids out while she kills the monster.
All said and done, she's telling into her cell at her organization that she killed the mother but the mother spawned "children." The children are out there. This isn't over...to be continued... Now, getting back to Bian...
“Something is Killing the Children” has some fantastic artwork, with a plot that will keep you wanting to get to the next volume. I wish this first volume would have given us a little more backstory, but I know that’s to come in the next few volumes. I had a really good time with this one, though!
I don't want to spoil anything so this "review" is just my spastic reaction.
Maybe I shouldn't be writing this while my heart is still RACING but this was just so dang creepy and fun and creepy and kickass and creepy and awesome.
The artwork wasn't my favorite of all time, but it worked for this. The dark scenes and the ones with Erica Slaughter (OH MY GOODNESS I MAY ACTUALLY BE IN LOVE WITH HER) in particular were enhanced by this style. I kept getting a little lost when some panels were meant to read across the next page and some were meant to be read going down a row, but my reading at breakneck speed definitely wasn't helping matters.
5 Need-Volume 2-Stat Stars
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