Review: Bog Bodies

Bog BodiesÂ is paranormal story cloaked in the framework of a mystery. Set in the backdrop of Dublin, Ireland, Niamh Madigan has been missing and and so far the police don’t have any clues.

The main Protagonist Anti-Hero, is Killian a solider in the local gang that ends up in quite the precarious situation that sets him on a crash course for what’s in the bog. As a character Killian is criminals and flawed, yet I kept imprint redeeming elements on him in a hope that at some point he will have a redemptive arc, and thus had me rooting for him.

Panel to Panel, the story is intriguing, and colloquial use of terms to give the dialogue a bit of local color was a good call, and didn’t slow me down, but served to connect me to the characters just a little but more.Â

The art by the creative team is strong. The lines and color usage are on point.Â I feel like the artist missed some opportunities.Â Real World Bog Bodies have a strangely intact blackened skin where features are still visible, as if a person had fallen asleep and turned to stone but was, was missing from the panels.Â What was apparent was that some of the victims faces, hadÂ signs of being shot, and bludgeoned, such is common with real world Bog BodiesÂ visible on their mummified skin.

Bog Bodies is a harsh story, and vigorous, and sturdy. It scorns the common trope of redemption through evidence of weakness. There are plenty of twists nothing of sham or hypocrisy in it. It is what it is, without apology.”“

SCORE: 3 stars out of 5Â

(W) Declan Shalvey
(A) Gavin Fullerton, Nalty Rebecca
(CA) Declan Shalvey

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