I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the HUMAN REMAINS by Peter Milligan & Sally Cantirino Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the
giveaway!
Peter Milligan is a legendary British writer of comics, film, and television. One of
Entertainment Weekly’s “it” writers of the early 2000s, Peter Milligan was at the forefront of
the revolution in comics which were created for a more sophisticated, adult audience.
Shade the Changing Man for Vertigo offered a skewered look at American culture,
while Enigma, Face, The Extremist, and Rogan Gosh pushed the boundaries of what comic books could do. Milligan was the longest-running writer of the cult horror comic Hellblazer, and his take on Human Targe inspired the TV series. For Marvel, the hugely-popular X-Statix was a radical reworking of the X-Man paradigm, described by Kevin Smith (CLERKS etc) as “the most well-observed scholarly analysis of media-manipulation filtered through a pop-culture lens ever committed to the page”.
Milligan is the screenwriter of Pilgrim AKA Inferno (2000) and An Angel For May (2002) and
currently is the co-creator and writer of Human Remains for Vault Comics
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Sally Cantirino is a comic artist and illustrator currently based in New Jersey. She has been self-publishing comics and zines since she was a teenager. Her recent comics work includes I Walk With Monsters and Human Remains for Vault Comics, “The Final Girls”, “Last Song”, and “We Have To Go Back”. She has also done artwork for World Champ Game Co and bands like La Dispute and Murder By Death.
Title: HUMAN REMAINS
Author: Peter Milligan, Dearbhla Kelly, Sally Cantirino (Illustrations), AndWorld Design, Adrian
F. Wassel (Editor)
Pub. Date: September 27, 2022
Publisher: Vault Comics
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 208
Alien meets A Quiet Place in this science fiction tale of terror for fans of Josh Malerman’s Bird
Box and Tim Lebbon’s The Silence about a post-apocalyptic world in which monsters hunt the
things that make us human – where feeling is a dangerous thing.
Live. Laugh. Love. Scream.
DIE.
Dax and Bisa love each other. But in this new and terrifying world, love is dangerous. Feeling
anything is dangerous. Love. Hate. Joy. Fear. Any of these in strong doses will bring a swift
death. Earth has a new and terrible invader—monsters that smell the scent of emotion, salivate
over the prey, and hunt the very feelings that make us human. A shocking tale of pent-up
emotions and forced composure in the face of unspeakable horror…from one of the most
celebrated writers in comics, Peter Milligan (X-Force, Enigma, Shade the Changing Man,
Hellblazer) and breakout horror artist Sally Cantirino (I Walk With Monsters, The Final Girls).
Collects the entire eight-issue series.
Phew. What a ride! Paired with a satirical plot and diverse characters, this comic unleashes a theme that doesn't seem too far-fetched seeing the way people behaved during our most recent pandemic. I loved that the aliens were not fully explained (I like a bit of mystery) and the artwork made them jump off the page.
Human Remains checks all the boxes for me: terrifying, gory, funny, and full of heart of survival. The funny part is that I thought I'd be good to survive in a world without emotions, but only if I were alone otherwise I'd be dead in a second with my temper haha
I did have a problem with placing certain characters since some looked too much alike, but that is my only qualm.
I wouldn't read this if you're sensitive to gore. I WOULD read this is if you're into movies like the SIlence and A Quiet Place.
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Giveaway Details:
2 winners will receive a finished copy of HUMAN REMAINS, US Only.
Ends October 18th, midnight EST.
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