Hmm, I seem to be the only one of my friends who didn't like this. I loved the premise. Washed up actress gets taken over by a water demon and enacts revenge, but the story is paper thin. Everyone introduced is a 2D cutout of a 3D character, they have no personality and thus no foundation for what Zub was going for, a takedown of the "celebrity" and vapidness of Hollywood. All in all, it felt like a puzzle that was missing the last few pieces.

I get the point the authors come from, it was a good one. The story itself didn't put me in awe, but it was interesting enough to keep me waiting for next volume. And it had monsters, Orient, it had monsters in it!

Glitterbomb might be one of the most surprising comics I read this year. I expected meh and got greatness! Farrah is a actress. Well, she was, but then got older, had a kid, and now trying to get back in. So things aren't going the way she likes. She keeps going on interviews to try and score another acting spot but it's not happening. So she goes to the beach one day and boom, gets swallowed up and turned into some type of monster. This monster begins to kill people and she blacks out and let's...

This has been my least favorite graphic novel to date. I understood the important message this was trying to give off (I mean, it is stated several times throughout). Yes, fame is ugly and the hollywood life can ruin people. Yes, there are awful things happening behind the scenes and awful people who ruin the businesses. But I did not understand the story of things at all. What's with the water monster thing? I don't know. Why does it seek revenge? I don't know. Maybe these will be answered late...

BCDER: 59It's a start to something... Issue #4 left me wondering how the plot recovers, maybe it doesn't, maybe the series is great because of it. I know I'll definitely read volume 2 to see what happens next.

Bloody brilliant. Like, really bloody.

I wanted to like this book, I swear. Two of my GR friends gave it good reviews so I opened it with confidence but no. It didn't click with me.So Hollywood is full of vanitous, useless scum. Big deal.I didn't connect with Farrah, the main character-who actually doesn't look the role, pity-and the speed with which she's possessed with some lovecratian horror. A little bit more of tension build-up would have been appreciated. The rest of the cast is full of air, not illogical but quickly boring. I

Farrah, single mom & actress, is following the story. She urgently wants to take a dip at the beach when she doesn't get the work. That's something down here that's unlike any I saw, and she has seen it before. What they don't know, is something. It rapidly controls her and causes havoc by murdering others. It's dark and frightening, and I can't even start speculating what it is.The imagery fits this perfectly, yet the cover gave me no clue what this book had in itself. I can't put it until I've...

Farrah Durante is a washed-up middle-aged actor/single mom, one of many female actors who get older and find there’s no work for them. After one particularly bad day Farrah attempts suicide by walking into the Pacific - and then something else walks back out; something that wants revenge! Jim Zub and Djibril Morissette-Phan’s Glitterbomb is an excellent new series that gleefully attacks the fickle culture of Hollywood from a horror angle. The story grabs you immediately for pure shock value but

What a great cover! It's creepy, it fits the story, and really draws the eye.This isn't the first time that someone has told a story about ambition, struggle, and failure in the soul-eating world of Hollywood and presented it as a horror story. Check out Nicolas Winding Refn's unsettling 2016 flick The Neon Demon as a good example. In fact, I'm not exactly sure why every wanna-be-in-Hollywood story isn't told as a tale of pure terror! But this graphic novel takes the whole "soul-eating" part to

This was an interesting read if a bit cliche. Farrah Durante is a has been television actress who's having a miserable day. She bombs an audition, gets dropped by her agent, and she's pissing off her babysitter cause she can't afford to pay her. Then there's the small matter of all the time she can't account for. Whole hours go by before she finds herself standing somewhere unfamiliar covered in blood with no idea what's happened. Now the police are asking questions, she still needs a job, and s...

I’ve lived in Los Angeles for just over three and a half years now, so obviously that means I can consider myself an expert on the city, as is traditional.Therefore, with my sacred powers as an Angeleno, I’ve decided that satires and takedowns of LA only work if they come from a place of love. If you’ve got nothing but hate for Los Angeles, if you can’t see even one iota of the appeal of this ridiculous city, then your critique will probably come out sour and clichéd.Or, in any case, that was my...

It gets off to a rather strong start, but falters quickly. This is a somewhat heavy-handed swipe at Hollywood that falters because it doesn't really say anything new or interesting and because Zub doesn't do a good job showing any sort of lure to stardom. Yes, the industry can be terrible, but there's no sense of why people allow it to be so. Without the seductive glitz, the seediness just seems like pointless grime. Which is a shame, because there's a good starting point here.

At this point Glitterbomb may have gained a topical quality that its creators didn't necessarily intend. The abusive, bullying nature of Hollywood elite is a topic that has always existed on a periphery, being brought up even back in the 30's, but often with a sort of "that's just the way it is" bit of sadness and shrugging. Glitterbomb seems like a sort of catharsis for women who've been terrorized at their place of employment by a man who seemed immune to reprisal. What's awkward about this is...

The decadence and corruption of the movie industry finds its voice in a creature that inhabits the body of an aging female actor. The characters are fairly well developed, and I didn't expect the lead to end up in a position where she causes so much death so publicly that she's shot and killed at the end of the volume. I have no idea where this is going to go next, but I want to find out, so I plan to read the next volume. The art is fair, but the characters are drawn to be very expressive.