Jennifer McStay knows what it's like to feel trapped. Stuck in a world of violence, where once intimate spaces become claustrophobic, and everything seems to shrink until there's nothing left but fear. Maybe that means she'll be able to survive the real monsters, who live outside and hunt human emotion. Or maybe it means the monsters will finally be her escape.
Human Remains isn't providing answers at this point but it is digging more into the psychological pressure that such an event causes. The COVID parallels are easy enough but it also charts its own course so that it's not completely playing off that event. It's less focused on character and more of a larger narrative but there are characters we continue to focus on, such as Dax and Bisa and Bisa's cousin, but it has a bit of a higher-level view of events than a lot of books do which work to really connect you to the characters. It's quite engaging in the big picture view and really has me intrigued to see where Milligan's going with it. Read Full Review
The salt-of-the-Earth energy of Human Remains is easily one of its strongest assets, making you feel for each character and the world they occupy in such a short number of pages, only to rip the proverbial rug out from under you at multiple turns. Read Full Review
Human Remains continues to impress, emphasising the strain on relationships caused by the life form mania. Ostensibly a horror comic, it's actually more of an inter personal drama and all the better for it. Highly recommended.
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