Death Jr 1-3
I bought this because Ted Naifeh did the art. I honestly don’t remember reading any of it, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this is actually my first time going through it. And yet I bought all six issues. Based on a PSP video game, Death Jr’s about the son of Death (the Grim Reaper one) and his misfit friends. They exist in a world where they are outcasts among “normal” human beings, but not treated as anything extraordinarily out of the ordinary.
It’s nothing special, but I did like the normalization of Death and his family.
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| Aww. |
If I’d really read this when I originally purchased them, I don’t think I would have gotten the follow up series…
Regret buying: No
Would buy again: No
Would read again: Yes
Rating: Fine
Death Jr 2 1-3
…so it’s a good thing that I didn’t, because volume two has got some real laugh out loud moments that would have been sad to have missed. Writer Gary Whitta digs a lot deeper into Death’s history and his industrial complex, and it’s excellent.
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| Heh, "big book deal." |
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| Ah, the evil eye from the missus. |
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| Death getting into all kinds of trouble. |
Making Bureaucracy both the Fifth Horseman and the villain of the story is flat out brilliant and hilarious.
Bureaucrary has a Tim Sale face. 
LOL, "yet to actually file a complaint." 
Heh, Elton John and David Bowie as Horsemen.
An unexpected and completely welcome level up to the previous volume.
Regret buying: No
Would buy again: Yes
Would read again: Yes
Rating: Pretty good
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