This is the first book from off my Halloween reading list for 2021 and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.Echoes is essentially a crime/mystery/horror mini-series and this collected edition contains all five issues along with a few extras; original script, cover artwork etc.The story spins out of a death bed confession, which leaves the main character, Brian Cohn, picking up the pieces of his Father's sinister reality and in the process doubting his own.It has some incredibly haunting blac...

This turned out being a lot creepier than I was expecting. The story was always interesting since the start, but the way it ends is what really packs a punch. If there’s a situation you wouldn’t like to be in, this is definitely it. The black and white artwork fit it perfectly and made the story even more intense.

I was pleasantly surprised by this book. Brian was learning to control his schizophrenia when he visits his father on his deathbed. His father whispers something to him that leads Brian to believe his father may have been a serial killer. As Brian deals with his schizophrenia, he has difficulty discerning what's real and what isn't. Is Brian succumbing to unnatural urges within him or is it all just a dream? The black and white artwork fits right into the stark story.Received an advance copy fro...

I believe I got the whole series - I may have not, but in any case I will put my review on Vol. 1.Absolutely incredible - unconventional hero drawn into unconventional problems, with difficult ways out. Fialkov,Joshua,Hale does a great job portraying the horrors of mental illness and Rahsan Ekedal's black and white art just captures the mood well.I'd say just give this a shot, but be warned - you're in for a ride, in all directions at once.

Very good book, well crafted. Unfortunately, at 120 pages it’s too short to be engaging enough. This is the limit of the medium itself. Look at all the most successful graphic novels: they are all really long.

My brother suffered from schizophrenic episodes for years when he was younger. They dosed him with every medication under the sun short of Thorazine. Like the three other men in the family with schizophrenia or paranoid-schizophrenia, his dementia was linked to episodic religious fits. There was a time when he practically reenacted the Exorcist scene, split-pea soup projectile accompanying sporadic seizures and cursing jags. Its a scary thing to have to deal with, worse having to know that it wa...

Long story short. the dad of our main "hero", tormented of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's, leaves one small clue that he may be something terrible - mass murderer...Joshua brings us a horror/thriller of the finest class about what is real, what is unreal and how the sanity is something really slippery to grasp on.The art is very fine (sometimes I felt like in that music video from A-ha), the storytelling is very spot on - Joshua really tries hard to be a step ahead and it works at least up to hal...

Moody artwork in black and grey and a really good mystery story dealing with mental illness and coming to terms with a dying father and his legacy on many levels. probably the best thing top cow has ever released. for fans of hitchcock movies. I just wished the book was a bigger format to really appreciate the artwork, but at least it`s a hardcover.

I received this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.Wow, I'm actually in shock right now as I am writing this review directly after finishing reading. I just went on quite the journey reading this book. The story follows a man named Brian who takes pills to control his schizophrenia and he spends much of this novel battling his demons and confused over what is real and what isn't. At the beginning of the book his father is on his death bed and starts mumbling abo...

What a dark goddamn story. I don't think I was prepared for this. Brian goes to visit his father who is dying in the hospital. Right before his father passes away he tells Brian about a house where something is buried, and mentioned the remains of little girls. So Brian goes over to the house to discover a bunch of dolls made up of flesh and bones from missing children. Soon he is consumed with fear and then begins to doubt himself, and who he is, and might be a murderer himself like his father...

Brilliant and creepy. The title made sense at the end. I can't believe I put this off. The scenes were so intense. Definitely recommended for horror fans. This needs to be made into a movie!

Brian has a lot to deal with: the impending arrival of his first child, managing his schizophrenia, and his father's final days in the grip of Alzheimer's. Then, on his deathbed, his father directs Brian to a hidden trunk containing dozens of grisly trophies constructed from the corpses of murdered girls. Brian starts to doubt himself, a girl disappears, a nosy cop starts poking around, could Brian have done it and blacked out, twist, twist, the end.Echoes is basically the novelization of a ho-h...

Brilliant horror comic. The psychological element will shake you, guaranteed. The main character has a mental illness that is made infinitely worse by the revelation that his dying father was a serial killer. He hears voices, has hallucinations and believes he has his father's serial killer gene. The cliffhangers at the end of every issue are breathtaking.Brian Cohn is suffering from Alzheimer's and has to take medication to keep it under control. His father died of the same disease. Before pass...

I did not expect the ending, but I'm really glad it ended that way. This was really good, dark, unsettling and creepy story. The black and white artwork fits right, making great atmosphere.

This just didn't work for me. The protagonist's mental illness isn't ever really grounded--we know he's taking pills for something, but not specifically what. We know he had a trying relationship with his father, but not enough detail about what the relationship was. Both these issues really hurt the story that Fialkov is trying to tell here. It could have been a lot better, with just a bit more attention to detail.

Eh, this could have been so much better. As it stands, this isn't a bad read. We meet Brian, a man trying to cope with a mental illness and the death of his abusive father at the same time. All Brian wants is for things to be normal. He has a pregnant wife, and has built a life for himself. What could go wrong? Apparently, quite a lot. Kudos to Fialkov for writing an interesting twist into this serial killer story. I definitely didn't see that coming. What I think was missing here, to really pul...

A deeply haunting and terrifying story of murder, mental illness, and the fraught relationships between fathers and sons. Though it has moments of visual horror that are well-crafted and scary, the real terror here lies in the uncertainty, shame, and guilt associated with sharing an inherited mental illness. This could easily work as a film, given the riveting murder-mystery plot and cinematic eye of the artist, but it also has a certain bleak psychological power on the black & white page that m...

5 starsHuge thanks to Joshua Hale Fialkov, Diamond Book Distributors, Image Comics and NetGalley for this copy in exchange for an honest review.I don't read too many graphic novels as I need to find ones that spark an interest, I'm glad I found this one as it is wonderful!While Brian's dad is on his death bed he confesses a crime and Brian, unsure of what he's confessing to, goes to find the evidence in the crawl space of the house his father mentions.The black and white art style of this graphi...

I'm wavering back and forth on my rating on this one... it might deserve a four or five star rating, but... I don't know... I felt a little cheated by the ending. Not that the ending didn't make sense within the context of the story, and gods know that I read lots of stories where the "good guy" loses, but, for some reason, this story felt to me like it really wanted an ending where the antagonist gets his, and Brian and his wife find their happy ending. Instead, the ending left me feeling reall...