The Nice House on the Lake 1

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Hidden Depths: As Walter points out, David can be "pretty stupid" a lot of the time, but he is a remarkably perceptive individual who understands people. David is the first to realise that the guests can't remember how they arrived at the Nice House, and that they can't die. He also gives Molly an empathic speech about her suicidal tendencies. Human Aliens: Walter talks about what his "people" are going to do to the planet, but he appears entirely human. When Norah tries to kill him with a fire poker, however, she slices through his head, but it appears to completely replace itself within seconds. Barbarian, 2022's most messed-up horror movie, is getting a single-player video game from the Friday the 13th and Evil Dead: The Game devs Phegley, Kiel (2013-04-30). "Tynion Taps The Horror of "The Eighth Seal" ". CBR . Retrieved 2022-07-13.

I think that's all that kept it from being 5 stars, though. The story is unique, and the characters are pretty interesting if not wholly fleshed out. All of them were at that moment in their lives when they could feel themselves pulling away from their other friends; wouldn’t a chance to reconnect be…nice? In The Nice House on the Lake, the overriding anxieties of the 21st century get a terrifying new face—and it might just be the face of the person you once trusted most.

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The explanation for what is happening is.. unexciting..? I believe the ending of this volume is supposed to be a kind of twist, and it's more of a sigh, really. all abstractions, all generalizations, treat words and images and people and thoughts as units existing in some matrix of comparison. the doctor, the pianist, the politico, the artist(s), etc. et al, all the participants in this study taking place in a nice house on the lake... all treat the story as substance. all treat their own selves as having some substance, a genuine identity, rather than a label or title to be fulfilled. all attempt to communicate. all fail. their last communication, for now, for when, is a bullet. it fails. but that was the plan all along, to fail. to fail is to keep living? One of the social media posters says his brother was on Twitch when his eyeballs melted. Another mentions that her skin is coming off on her phone screen as she types.

you know what would be nice for a change? if when someone said that their graphic novel was planned for 12 issues and done, then it was actually 12 issues and done. instead, you get shit like this where the critical reception (and most probably, the sales) are high enough for the author to decide to not actually write an ending and just leaving everything unexplained/unsolved. Razorblades: The Horror Magazine #1–5 (with Ricardo Lopez Ortiz, Andy Belanger, Martin Simmonds, Fernando Blanco, Josh Hixson, Liana Kangas, 2020–2021) Imagine your childhood best friend. A bit awkward, a little weird and intense; well-liked by all, but only a few can claim to truly know well. A confidant; the best man at your wedding, a sympathetic ear and ever-eager helping hand who’s never farther than a phone call away. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Not to mirror the issue of ecosystem/balance/longevity too closely from the comic’s own plot but I think the whole model would need to change to keep things running.Tynion is just not quite clever enough to pull any more twists out, or at least at this frequency, as the few here feel a bit thin or frayed compared to the earlier ones (maybe it’s just the downside of reading a collected volume as opposed to the floppies).

All the characters blended together for me. They all have that late 20s hipster vibe. Also I don't buy that they'd all be good friends with Walter. Some more development of the cast is really needed. It'd be like making an ensemble cast movie but none of the actors stand out. You kind of need some star power to make it work. Johnston, Rich (2022-02-11). "James Tynion IV Shows You Teenage Mad Scientist Christopher Chaos". Bleeding Cool . Retrieved 2022-07-13. Affably Evil: Walter tells his friends that he genuinely loves them, which is why he is saving them...but the rest of the world is going to die. Eisner Award for Best Writer for Something Is Killing the Children ( Boom!), Wynd ( Boom!), Batman ( DC), The Department of Truth ( Image), Razorblades (Tiny Onion) [41]

Although things end with the inhabitants of the eponymous house assuming that Walter has been killed and that they now live under some semblance of freedom, that couldn't be farther from the case. Not only is Walter still alive, but he knows that things are about to get harder than ever for his so-called friends. Even if his alien masters aren't aware of the trouble that has been caused in Walter's ecosystem, it is only a matter of time before they are. This is because the humans within it are so close to colliding with their fellow survivors elsewhere. Walter was giving off some serious serial killer vibes all through the first issue so I was pretty sure I knew what was going to happen when he gathered all of his friends together at that lake house. Eisner Award for Best Writer for House of Slaughter, Something Is Killing the Children, The Nice House on the Lake, The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country, The Closet, The Department of TruthThe pieces are there to make The Nice House on the Lake, Volume 1 a fun book but James Tynion IV fails to assemble them into anything more than a narrative that’s unfortunately more often boring than not. the camera movements of the mind take it in but not all at once, a shot here, a shot there, swing left swing right, zoom in zoom out, cut. edit. try to put it all together as a narrative, as something that makes sense, some kind of sense, any kind of sense but nonsense; but there is no sense, all of the senses may be working overtime, one two three four five, but nothing is making sense, sense has stopped making sense. in this nice house on the lake. And then there was the explanations of all the machinations behind the scenes. To be honest, I actually feel like I would have enjoyed this more if Tynion and company had actually left this part unexplained and let the readers create their own theories as to what was going on. read this amazing essay "Fragmentation of the Self" that has nothing to do with a nice house on a lake, but I stole some phrases and ideas from it anyway:

The Nice House on the Lake, written by James Tynion IV (!) and Álvaro Martínez Bueno, with Jordie Bellaire on colors, is part of the Tynion wave sweeping the current phase of comics. Tynion, one of the two or three “it” people in comics now, was just awarded 2022 Eisner Awards for Best Writer, Best continuing Series (Something is Killing the Children), and Best New Series, this one. He’s this year’s Jeff Lemire, I guess. A mutual friend, Walter, invites ten people to stay in a fancy lakeside house in the country for a weekend getaway. A nice house, far enough away from the hectic pace of modern life to make you think you were the last people on Earth - and then it turns out that you are! Because “Walter” is an alien who has saved his nearest and dearest from the end of the world. What next - imprisonment in some hellish mystery box? Oh… Fallout co-creator Tim Cain has designed a secret sequel that no one will ever see: "I'm never ever going to talk about it" Not as good as the first volume. Still a crazy good storyline though. Probably should have reread the first volume as a refresh.In the time since being brought together at the end of the world, the survivors of The Nice House on the Lake #12 (by James Tynion IV, Alvaro Martinez Bueno, and Jordie Bellaire) have all but fallen apart entirely. After the accidental death of Naya, the group are split between finding some way of taking revenge and coming to terms with the post-apocalyptic world. As their alien captor Walter explains to his favorite artist Ryan, this tragedy also provides a glimmer of hope, as it has brought the number of people in this enclosure to what his fellow overlords expected. Apart from every other development, the idea that the survivors under Walter's purview aren't the only ones left is more surprising than anything else. It also opens the door for horrors yet to come. Chris Arrant (2021-08-09). "Batman writer James Tynion IV quits DC for creator-owned comics". GamesRadar . Retrieved 2022-07-13.