Ryan Stearns over at The Signal-Watch has posted his review of the book, and he's a huge fan. Some snippets:
"The style has definite, vague echoes of McKean, or late-80's Sienkiewicz and John J. Muth, or even Sam Keith's more expressionistic work in The Maxx, without ever feeling particularly derivative."
"There's definitely a sense of the cinematic to the writing, and I can't exactly put my finger on whether its dialog or a very filmic pacing to the events that made me think 'movie', but its not distracting. Instead, the flow of the story does seem to work in a sort of slow-boil mystery as circumstances reveal themselves and the facts of what's happening in the strange, small town of Harbor Moon, Maine reveal themselves."
"I was impressed with the ability of the writers to create different paces and tone within the story, really bringing the reader in to Tim's perspective and the seeming chaos which erupts, then pulling back in the investigative and character building moments (with the artists following suit)."
"There's no question that very little else that appears on the shelf has a look as potent as what the team here has assembled. While the visuals are a huge draw, the story and characters are well defined and interesting enough that its a great new entry for the horror and mystery genres in comics, and the kind of storytelling that comics can do remarkably well when a team like the creative team here puts their minds and backs to it."
