Thursday Review: SPILL ZONE by Scott Westerfeld an.Plankton, tiny suspended particles that form the base of the ocean's food web, float en masse 1,400 feet beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, forming a snowy-like underwater scene as they move with the currents outside the windows of a two-man sub creeping a few feet off the seafloor.Ĭrabs, starfish and other deep sea creatures swarm small patches of corals, and tiny sea anemones sprout from the sand like miniature forests across a lunar-like landscape illuminated only by the lights of the sub, otherwise living in a deep, dark environment far from the sun's reach.Monday Review: REAL FRIENDS by Shannon Hale and Le.Turning Pages Reads: MAUD by MELANIE FISHBANE.Monday Review: STRANGE THE DREAMER by Laini Taylor.Monday Review: DREAMLAND BURNING by Jennifer Latham.The partnership with artist Alex Puvilland (who is married to the incomparable LeUyen Pham, BTW) is a good one: the art has this scratchy, crackly quality that fits well with the tone of the story, and the important details are highlighted with clarity and simplicity. Observations: This is a suspenseful, edgy post-apocalyptic adventure from an accomplished storyteller in the genre-and I was pleased to see that Westerfeld's ability to convey a truly creepy atmosphere also applies to the graphic novel format. The day she does leave the safety of her bike…is the day things get REALLY weird.
The most important rule she follows is: never step off her motorbike. But the Spill Zone is also how Addison makes her living, selling anonymous photos of the zone's peculiarities to discerning art collectors so she can support herself and her little sister Lexa.
The Spill Zone is what is left of Poughkeepsie, New York after a bizarre accident has left the town a no-go zone of horrors. Oh, and mysteriously plotting North Koreans. Floating human meat puppets (which sent me off into a temporary YouTube black hole). Radioactive-mutant-nano-infected monsters. 1, by the way) designed, apparently, to give me nightmares: Creepy talking doll. Spill Zone seems to collect all those different kinds of scary in one graphic novel (which is only Vol. And actually, he does various kinds of scary really well. Synopsis: If you've ever read Scott Westerfeld's early trilogy The Midnighters, you'll know he does scary really, really well.
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