Top of the Pile 4/24/2013

Rachel Rising #16
by Terry Moore

There was a news blurb on a comic blog about the possibility of Rachel Rising being optioned for a television show. If the zombies of the Waking Dead comics can do it, I suppose witches and devils can also make the transition to the tube.

So, with this news, Rachel Rising was the first book I read this week. It’s usually a quick read and as always, the art is a pleasure to look at. Not too much is revealed in this issue. Mostly it’s the dead girls, Rachel and Jet, meet with their Aunt Johnny to talk about their situation. Young Zoe gets a bone handled knife which kills goats pretty easily. And Lilith burns. If this doesn’t make sense, reading the prior 15 issues helps a little, but not completely. It seems the story is coalescing, but the conflict has yet to really hit. I’m looking forward to when it does.

Like the other Terry Moore comics, I would add this to the library. It certainly doesn’t belong in the children’s area, but older teens with a slightly goth/supernatural sensibility would like this book.