A really solid collection of short stories. I can't wait to read more stuff from this author

It's "Small Press Comics that You Probably Didn't Know Existed Day!" SPCtYPDKED for short.Brilliant. Sam's review has slightly more words if you need them.

Did you like DMZ or Northlanders? This ain't either one of those, and you should put this book down and walk away.This should be called Slit your Wrists: A Teenage Guide to how cool it is to kill yourself.These collection of 12 stories are mostly depressing, very downer, and if this was the first Brian Wood stuff I'd read, I'd never read another word.I understand some of it is supposed to be about defining moments from adolescence, and how moments shape people, but honestly? Every one of the

So the problem with attempting to write a review of this book is that I really, strongly, actively dislike Brian Wood -- as a writer, as a professional, as a person. I find his comics to be one-note, angsty, dour, and narratively flat -- they're serious without being especially thoughtful, gloomy without being particularly vulnerable or incisive. I feel like Brian Wood has the internet open on one side of his desk and he's reading news articles about bad shit to get himself amped, and on the oth...

Underneath an umbrella of the titular duo-nym, Demo, lies twelve semi-tied together mini-stories tempered with edginess and saturated in hopelessly worthless youthful idealism and all the failures of days misspent and time killed. The veneers are are the same, black and white gloss over innumerable representations of explicitly inspired Anime/Manga styled art that ranges in a thin band within the already established illustrated continuum. Sometimes the art is detailed. Sometimes it is starkly mi...

For those who haven't read this yet, the idea is that every issue was a short story about a young person with a different "power."I say "power" instead of power or Power! because I guess some of these things would not really be qualified as powers. Eating human flesh? I mean, I guess it depends on the chef. You know that part in the Hannibal movie where he's just cooking up a piece of that dude's brain? I feel like brain meat would be rubbery. Not the most delicious part of a person. So eating t...

Demo is a collection of 12 short stories featuring young people with difficult lives in the midst of change. Initially the stories feel like kids with superpowers stories that wouldn’t be amiss in a Marvel or DC book but, over time, the stories shift from teens to young adults in their twenties minus the superpowers and focused more on their relationships. The first couple of stories feature teen girls with Carrie-esque psychic powers that trigger when stress is applied and the next story is abo...

This stark, black and white collection of graphic vignettes, illustrates young people making hard decisions. Some have extraordinary powers, and some are just facing extraordinary challenges. In one, a young girl is working at a gas station. She doesn't speak by choice. She doesn't speak because she can make people do what ever she says. One day she got mad at her mother and now her mother is catatonic. This isn't a collection of superheroes who marvel at their powers. This is a collection of yo...

Demo volume one - Brian Wood's Becky Cloonan's illustrated short stories of mid-America. Eisner nominated, but ultimately more than a bit unsatisfying, despite the quality of the content. 6 out of 12.

I don't know how to rate this. I'm a big fan of Brian Wood. Becky Cloonan - I like her too. So they were my sell point on this book. It's almost five hundred pages long ode to the feeling "being different". The stories usually incorporate some kind of looser or outsider with some kind of weirdness. From real superpower to curse. The quality varies. From really good stories to complete shit. So make an overall judgement is very hard. It started good, with few rather "superpower" stories, but it e...

This series of 12 stories of young people who are standing at the crossroads of some life-altering decision they have to make is somewhat uneven, but the stories I liked were really good. They leave the reader with a sense of shock. Some of the stories are fantastical and some real.

Teens who discover they have superpowers.. now almost blah as a concept but this really surprised me: the conception of it is novel, the art was great, the dialogue was good, and it moves this idea into new territory... I liked it quite a bit though I don't really LOVE this kind of stuff.

A mixed bag. Some were plain and boring slice of life stories. Some were indeed interesting. Particularly the ones about hidden powers and the like. One was rather funny (11th entry if I recall correctly).I didn’t get the ending to ‘Stand Strong’. ‘Girl You Want’ was plain weird. All the stories seem to feature different characters in unrelated stories, but they look pretty much the same (i.e not much variation in terms of character design). And the art style changes a lot though. Sometimes it’s...

Some truly intense stories, made that much rougher by the haphazard artwork...but happily there's some light at the end of this very dark night. Gonna take a good long break before volume two, but I'll be going forward for sure

For a while, I was not sure about this book. The stories, while interesting, seemed to vanish without figuring out how to be awesome. Young people faced decisions, yes, and sometimes they had powers of some kind. Generally very large powers--one girl could make people do what she said, another could make things go boom. One girl became whatever anyone wanted her to be. This was cool, and horrifying, and it was clever how she latched onto the one girl who saw her as she was. As she, the girl who

Part of the growing trend of putting superheroes into an everyday context (see also Powers, Runaways, "Heroes" on TV...). Standouts for me were2. Emmy (gas station attendant) and 5. Girl You Want (what you see is what I am)Some really beautiful, manga-influenced drawing here. Becky Cloonan's style is remarkably similar to Ryan Kelly's. And so, this feels very much like Local (a book I adored almost completely). It has the same short story style, and the tone is very much the same. Dark and omino...

Brian Wood continues his unending streak of stories that are all premise, no execution. This is one of his earliest independent creations, before DMZ or Northlanders, and it's a pretty clear indication of his style and what was to come next.In this (very long) book, we have the full collection of Wood & Becky Cloonan's original run of Demo: 12 issue-length stories about emotional young people being affected by various "superpowers." Honestly, several of these stories have solid premises. My favo...

I need to put it out there that I’m a fan of Wood. I loved DMZ, Rebels, The Massive, Northlanders and although Demo is a departure from those titles I still really liked the book. Coupled with the Cloonan art, which is best when it’s Paul Pope inspired, I’d recommend this for it emotion and angst. My soundtrack was Thundercat and Kamasi Washington jazz.

oh good more poorly remembered rehashes of Twilight Zone episodes! Nope nope nopety nope!Didn't finish.

Several short stories, Fantastic ever changing Art styles from the same artist Becky Cloonan The stories may not be for your Teen freshly removed from his ritalin but they are well done stories. This was a Good Read.