The Nice House on the Lake 1

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There are 3 distinct time periods in this story - the past (memories), the present (nice lake house), and the future (warzone). Time jumps a lot in this series which wouldn't normally be an issue except that there are 12 main characters. Having every issue from a different POV it meant I learned a little about each character but not enough to be invested in them. the intersections of structure, the intersections of body and mind and time and place and space both outer and inner... they trap these guests in this nice house on the lake. will there be an escape possible, in the secret places in this superstructure, in its shadowy spaces, its angles and substructures? they can only hope, these permanent residents of this nice house on the lake. Tynion IV and Blanco Expose the Internet's Secrets in New Image Series (Exclusive Preview)". CBR. 2023-03-17 . Retrieved 2023-07-05.

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, James Tynion IV, and more lead 2021 Eisner Awards". SyFy. 2021-07-24 . Retrieved 2022-07-13. 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). Something I enjoy about James Tynion IV is he aims to be very unsettling and hits you were it hurts, such as knowing everyone you’ve ever known or loved died in an absolutely horrific and gruesome apocalypse (Anderson Cooper gets singled out as someone who literally melts on live tv). In both series of his I’ve read now the art does not shirk away from depicting the most horrible things you can image. Like this:

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I think this would work better as a TV series. It's so hard to balance 10+ characters all chit-chatting and living together in a comicbook. I didn't really get to understand any of the characters until the very end. Trans Tribulations: Norah being trans isn't usually a source of angst, but towards the end of Cycle One it's revealed that she feels Walter never fully got over the fact she's not the "boy" he had a crush on in high school and hasn't really accepted her, on top of her realization about how much he's manipulated her entire life from the moment they met. Walter also transparently uses her dysphoria to manipulate her into helping him by offering her access to the reality controls that can alter the guests' physical forms.

The human-seeming alien’s eerily calm and bespectacled appearance regularly erupts into a writhing, phantasmagorical mass of gnashing teeth, bone, and flesh. It’s as disturbing as it is visually inspired, made all the more so for the fact that Walter’s eyes, if he even has any, are never seen throughout the series, perpetually obscured behind the eerie reflection of his glasses. Bestselling writer James Tynion IV has changed the face of horror in modern comics! Get ready for the second volume in his most ambitious story yet alongside artist Álvaro Martínez Bueno. Discover the secrets of The Nice House on the Lake! 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.Another parallel: Tynion's own The Woods series, which now feels like a dry run for whatever is going on in The Nice House on the Lake. I can't believe the same guy who wrote the "ambitious but only pretty good" The Woods series wrote this. Such an upgrade. Unfortunately, he fell into the same trap of having set up something so large, so earthshaking, that he had to come up with an explanation-heavy and over-complicated plot device to bring it to a (sort of) ending. Razorblades: The Horror Magazine #1–5 (with Ricardo Lopez Ortiz, Andy Belanger, Martin Simmonds, Fernando Blanco, Josh Hixson, Liana Kangas, 2020–2021) 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 Truth

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.

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James Tynion IV was born December 14, 1987, and grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he attended Marquette University High School. While studying creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Tynion met and began studying under Scott Snyder, in the nascent years of his comic book writing career. Following school, he became an intern for the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics, working under Editor Shelly Bond, among others. [3] Career [ edit ] I kind of hoped this would be the end of it, but no, these volumes are only 'cycle one'. Means there must be a bicycle coming. I was so excited that the second volume was available because the opening volume was spectacular. It took a few seconds to realize that Walter had played with everyone’s memories again, which is when I settled in and followed along. This time around, we watch as Walter tries to manipulate everyone into settling down in their new reality now that they think they’re just trapped at the lake house. The only problem is that no one wants to settle in long-term because they think there’s a world that still exists outside of the lake house. However, it is going much smoother since they’re no longer angry and upset knowing what happened to everyone they’ve ever known. Shout-Out: In Issue 4, David is wearing Ferris Bueller's Iconic Outfit, having apparently requested it from Walter via the notepad.