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TOUR: Human Remains by Peter Milligan & Sally Cantirino

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the HUMAN REMAINS by Peter Milligan & Sally Cantirino Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: HUMAN REMAINS

Author: Peter Milligan, Dearbhla Kelly, Sally Cantirino (Illustrations), AndWorld Design, Adrian F. Wassel (Editor)

Pub. Date: September 27, 2022

Publisher: Vault Comics

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 208

Find it: GoodreadsAmazon, Kindle, B&NiBooks, KoboTBD, Bookshop.org

Alien meets A Quiet Place in this science fiction tale of terror for fans of Josh Malerman’s Bird Box and Tim Lebbon’s The Silence about a post-apocalyptic world in which monsters hunt the things that make us human – where feeling is a dangerous thing.

Live. Laugh. Love. Scream.
DIE.

Dax and Bisa love each other. But in this new and terrifying world, love is dangerous. Feeling anything is dangerous. Love. Hate. Joy. Fear.  Any of these in strong doses will bring a swift death. Earth has a new and terrible invader—monsters that smell the scent of emotion, salivate over the prey, and hunt the very feelings that make us human. A shocking tale of pent-up emotions and forced composure in the face of unspeakable horror…from one of the most celebrated writers in comics, Peter Milligan (X-Force, EnigmaShade the Changing Man, Hellblazer) and breakout horror artist Sally Cantirino (I Walk With Monsters, The Final Girls).

Collects the entire eight-issue series.

 

MY REVIEW

     I absolutely loved Human Remains and I devoured it in one sitting! The very first page had me so intrigued with the government notice. I enjoyed the narration style that let me get to know so many characters easily and discover how connected they all were in the end. The cast of characters was also very diverse (which I don't always see in graphic novels/comics) and had a lot of depth to their characterization (which isn't always easy to portray in a few text boxes per scene!). Human Remains also tackled many heavy topics-- so be sure to check the content warnings-- and explored humanity on a raw emotional level. The art was sooo amazing, colorful, and soft when you would least expect it in this horror story. One small art detail that stood out to me was the depiction of human bodies in this story, I loved how realistic they were depicted. This may be a horror story with monsters, but it is also a love story in many different ways, from romantic to self-love. Even the characters I wanted to hate made me love them in the end. Just like everything I have read from Vault Comics, Human Remains became an instant new favorite! 

About Peter Milligan:

Peter Milligan is a legendary British writer of comics, film, and television. One of Entertainment Weekly’s “it” writers of the early 2000s, Peter Milligan was at the forefront of the revolution in comics which were created for a more sophisticated, adult audience. 

Shade the Changing Man for Vertigo offered a skewered look at American culture, while Enigma, Face, The Extremist, and Rogan Gosh pushed the boundaries of what comic books could do. Milligan was the longest-running writer of the cult horror comic Hellblazer, and his take on Human Target inspired the TV series. For Marvel, the hugely-popular X-Statix was a radical reworking of the X-Man paradigm, described by Kevin Smith (CLERKS etc) as “the most well-observed scholarly analysis of media-manipulation filtered through a pop-culture lens ever committed to the page”.

Milligan is the screenwriter of  Pilgrim AKA Inferno (2000) and An Angel For May (2002) and currently is the co-creator and writer of Human Remains for Vault Comics

 

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About Sally Cantirino:

Sally Cantirino is a comic artist and illustrator currently based in New Jersey. She has been self-publishing comics and zines since she was a teenager. Her recent comics work includes I Walk With Monsters and Human Remains for Vault Comics,  “The Final Girls”, “Last Song”, and “We Have To Go Back”. She has also done artwork for World Champ Game Co and bands like La Dispute and Murder By Death.

 

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Giveaway Details:

2 winners will receive a finished copy of HUMAN REMAINS, US Only.

Ends October 18th, midnight EST.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

9/19/2022

#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog

Guest Post

9/20/2022

Brandi Danielle Davis

IG Spotlight

9/21/2022

Book Sniffers Anonymous

Guest Post/IG Post

9/22/2022

Jazzy Book Reviews

Guest Post/IG Post

9/23/2022

hauntedbybooks

Review/IG Post

9/24/2022

Review Thick And Thin

Review/IG Post

Week Two:

9/25/2022

fairrryprose

Review

9/26/2022

Sadie's Spotlight

Guest Post /IG Post

9/27/2022

A Bookworms Garden

IG Review/TikTok Post

9/28/2022

Nagma | TakeALookAtMyBookshelf

Review/IG Post

9/29/2022

Bookdreamr

Review/IG Post

9/30/2022

Jeff_of_allmedia

IGReview

10/1/2022

Books with Brandie Shanae

YouTube Review/IG Post

Week Three:

10/2/2022

Forthenovellovers

Review

10/3/2022

The Real World According to Sam

Review/IG Post

10/4/2022

See Sadie Read

Review/IG Post

10/5/2022

Wanderingwitchreads

TikTok Review/IG Post

10/6/2022

@lexijava

Review/IG Post

10/7/2022

The Momma Spot

Review/IG Post

10/8/2022

Celia's Reads

Review/IG Post

Week Four:

10/9/2022

Laurenreads._

Review/IG Post

10/10/2022

Nerdophiles

Review/IG Post

10/11/2022

GryffindorBookishNerd

Review/IG Post

10/12/2022

A Dream Within A Dream

Guest Post/IG Post

10/13/2022

onemused

Review/IG Post

10/14/2022

Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers

Review/IG Post


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