At the End of Your Tether

A comics review

This is my first comics review in ages. I didn’t want it to be negative, but I guess it is, which only makes me feel bad. I would like it to be constructive, with a silly hope that maybe something can improve a product in progress. However, I found the trade for Lion Press’ At the End of Your Tether already posted on Amazon. It’s projected to be out in November, not long after the three-issue series ends. Sometimes I forget how comics work. The course is clear. It will, in all likelihood, come out as planned with no possible way to change it. I just may not be around to read the rest of its serialization.

At the End… appears to be an attempt at a Fault in Our Stars type of young adult fiction. I’m not the intended audience, which is great. As I get older, there will be less comics made “for me” and more that are not. So before I wrote this, I asked my girlfriend’s teenage daughter for an expert opinion about a comic seemingly made for her.

The one statement she allowed me to quote: I just wish I knew what was going on.

Uh-oh, I thought to myself on the book’s behalf.

She confirmed my own thoughts. I had to read this too many times to figure out the chronology of things. The story begins with three unnamed people in a forrest, two of which may be or not be two older…