Shadowplay (Book 1): Midnight School

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC!

First of all, I gotta say the art is amazing! It's not your typical art style, I don't think I've ever seen an art style quite like Sam's and the “rough pencil” look it has really fits the scary vibe of the comic, especially the earliest parts of it. And it makes the colors pop more whenever there are colorful details.

I also like what the story was trying to tell, and I wholeheartedly, 100% agree with the sentiment, but personally, more than scared at the comic, I was confused for the most part at why things were happening. I don't think the comic quite fits the “psycological horror” descriptor because it has too much physical violence for that, imo. Psychological Horror is more about what's left unsaid, about what you can't see, what you think and ruminate, that ends up eating you from the inside. This comic didn't really gave me that. 

I'm also a bit disappointed because I expected an horror comic through and through and by the end of it it turned into a fighting comic? I'm not against fighting comics, I love me some fantasy and a good fight, but it's not what I came here looking for, and I feel like the change was a bit abrupt. It sort of just happened in a couple of pages.

I think I will give a chance to future books but I'll be sure to come with a different mindset lol.