Outcast, Vol. 1 by Robert Kirkman7/3/2023 It opens with a boy who is (presumably) possessed by a demon.Īnd Kyle Barnes gets a call from his mother asking for him to come because she knows he's helped other people who've had this happen to them. <-this sort of thing may not be an issue for everyone, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. Plus, there just wasn't much detail to the panels, which (at times) made it difficult to understand exactly what was happening. What I meant to say is that it annoyed me because a lot of the faces tended to be indistinguishable from one another. Now, I mentioned that I didn't care for the art. Now, I won't go so far as to compare it to Supernatural, but it does have a distinct Odd Couple hunting demons vibe to it that I really liked. And you know what? The kid was kind of right! I may have put off reading it because the art is less than appealing, but another friend dubbed it an R-rated Supernatural, so that pretty much bumped it up to the top of my list. Sent to me in a goodie basket, and so far it's one of my top picks! I'd never heard of Kirkman's Outcast, but it was another of the Halloween Horror comics my friend
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