Gasolina hits all the big points you want to see: sex, drugs, violence, family connections . . . and in a way, this helps to humanize the characters, as did the artwork. It matches the style of the comic perfectly, and the color choices went far to illustrate the gritty existence the characters are living in. Read Full Review

In the back-matter to the book, Mackiewicz describes his book as an “attempt to process real world horror, centuries of it, magnify it through genre, and learn from it.” In this sense, we have something akin to Scalped but with a more genre-specific edge to it, one that is yet to reveal the full depth of its twists and turns. A terrific new debut that feels all at once highly topical and timeless. Read Full Review

This tumultuous story is fast paced and written splendidly. It has everything! Waiting on the edge of my seat for issue #2. Read Full Review

Overall, Gasolina was a pleasant surprise for me. I did read this first issue twice because there is an incredible amount to take in. The first read through, I was thinking, there is entirely too damn much going on here. The second read through, I was able to see Mackiewicz's vision clearer and I welcome what is coming next. I did mention there were aliens, right? Read Full Review

There is good and evil in the world, but what we notice are the things in between. Gasolina shows what it is like to struggle to live between worlds. Read Full Review

Depending on the direction Mackiewicz chooses to go with Los Queridos and their unorthodox methods, Gasolina has the makings of a unique and thrilling genre mashup. While Mackiewicz may be much better known for his work as an editor, he has done a fantastic job in this first issue ofestablishing a compelling story hook that should bring readers back for more. Unless a blend of cartel crime and body horror generally sounds like an unappealing combo to you, Gasolina #1definitely packs enough intrigue to warrant your attention. Read Full Review

I picked up Gasolina #1 with absolutely no idea what I was in for. And though this debut issue occasionally has a little too much going on, being stuffed with cool and intriguing elements just begging for more detail and space is a pretty awesome problem to have. It may be a bit dense, but Gasolina #1 is a creepily effective mixture of gritty crime thriller and gory body horror. It's a distinct story, that's for sure, and that unique quality, combined with the skill on display, overcomes a slightly overstuffed opening chapter. If you're looking for a gritty and dark tale with a lot of promise, pick it up. Read Full Review

It's a hard premise to describe, but lets just say if you like the sound of a book that is a mixture of Narcos, Breaking Bad, and the Walking Dead with a little bit of Alien on the side then you've come to the right place.  Read Full Review

Call me a sucker for resolution, but I would have like to see the final scene play out over more than one page. Aside from a final page that felt like it somehow interrupted itself, Gasolina is compelling cartel story that will likely continue to become even more gripping, somehow. Read Full Review

A fine debut that fans of both Breaking Bad and Supernatural will appreciate in equal measure. Read Full Review

FJ: Gasolina mixes the local politics of Scalped with the simmering horror of Evil Dead. Image presents a very well thought out, grounded, supernatural crime action drama that takes heavy subject matter and makes it palatable, without watering it down. At all. Read Full Review

Gasolina is a series that is going somewhere. But in this first issue, it's going too fast to really make the story enjoyable. It's like a movie that flops in the theatres but becomes a smash on Pay-Per-View and DVD. I think Gasolina just wasn't meant for this medium. But as a graphic novel collection, it's going to be a phenomenal thriller. Just wait until 2018. Read Full Review

Ill end this thusly then: If my plot summary up above sounds intriguing, give Gasolina a shot. Theres a lot of promise here. Im hoping this is just an issue of setup blues and with our characters and world established, things can get monsterish and interesting. If not, well, it'll still be better than Batman Metal. Read Full Review

Like I said before, I think it's coming off like I'm being too hard on this book and that this is a bad review. It's not. Not really. I did like the book. I just think it could have been great instead of just good. First issues are tricky bitches though. Creators have to do a lot in them. They have to tell a good and compelling story so that readers will come back again for the next issues, but they also have to set up enough of the story so that the thing actually has momentum. I am hooked, though. The last few pages sealed it for me. Read Full Review

Fans of suspense comics such as The Black Monday Murders and Kill or Be Killed may see this as an off-week filler series with potential for expansion into a full-blown international crime drama centered around drug cartels, black magic, and murder. But as of now, the creative team has some work to do if they wish to garner the same critical acclaim of their contemporaries. Read Full Review

Part slice of life, part crime, part nonsensical horror. Aimless and ugly. After the last page, I dropped Gasolina straight into la basura.