Friday, Book One

This isn't going to work for everyone, I can say that with confidence. What Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martín are doing here is special. It's essentially a modern serialized mystery story where each chapter is a different length and ends with a cliff-hanger or hook of some kind. This isn't structured like a Comic written for trade. It's structured like chapters in a 60's YA Mystery novel.

What is is though is a loving tribute to the works of John Bellairs. The world and characters are grounded but carry the tropes of his classic mystery stories. A New England small town with no short supply of ancient secrets and occult mysteries to uncover. If you're familiar with those stories (or even that of Nancy Drew) you'll feel right at home. Of course this isn't a children's story so it's darker in tone, the natural evolution to this type of story in my opinion.

I can see this eventually becoming a 5/5 series for me, they just have to stick the landing with subsequent chapters. Personally, I have no doubts. I just hope it finds the right audience, it deserves it.