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esmewasreading's review
4.0
NOW THATS A CLIFF HANGER! I. need. more!
This volume perfectly sets the scene for the bigger series. I am fully invested in this series! Excited to see where the story brings us and to see what happens with the characters.
BTW this does say "the first day of Christmas" but don't let it deter you from picking it up! The book is basically just set around Christmas time so I would really classify it as a Christmas book.
The art style is very pretty but not my personal taste, but still beautifully done. The design of the clubhouse/treehouse is legit so good!
excited to pick up the next volume and see where we go from here!!
Thank you so much Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read and review this one! (my thoughts are all my own!)
This volume perfectly sets the scene for the bigger series. I am fully invested in this series! Excited to see where the story brings us and to see what happens with the characters.
BTW this does say "the first day of Christmas" but don't let it deter you from picking it up! The book is basically just set around Christmas time so I would really classify it as a Christmas book.
The art style is very pretty but not my personal taste, but still beautifully done. The design of the clubhouse/treehouse is legit so good!
excited to pick up the next volume and see where we go from here!!
Thank you so much Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read and review this one! (my thoughts are all my own!)
bearinmaine's review
5.0
Frida Fitzhugh and Lancelot Jones are the perfect team: a smart, tough, and spunky girl teaming up with the smartest boy on earth to solve crimes in a charming little New England town. But happens when those scrappy little cases grow up alongside those scrappy little detectives?
WOW! I LOVED this comic. Incredibly attractive premise with some gorgeous, old-school art and unsettling details in its storyline make for an absolutely perfect read. Friday was a heroine I absolutely want to follow and know more about. I was so taken with the illustrations that I found myself flipping back and forth between pages just to study some of the images better. I grew up a rabid fan of Harriet the Spy, Encyclopedia Brown and eventually started to read the police procedurals those books eventually grow up to be. This felt like such a natural evolutionary step between the two! I can't wait to continue this series.
WOW! I LOVED this comic. Incredibly attractive premise with some gorgeous, old-school art and unsettling details in its storyline make for an absolutely perfect read. Friday was a heroine I absolutely want to follow and know more about. I was so taken with the illustrations that I found myself flipping back and forth between pages just to study some of the images better. I grew up a rabid fan of Harriet the Spy, Encyclopedia Brown and eventually started to read the police procedurals those books eventually grow up to be. This felt like such a natural evolutionary step between the two! I can't wait to continue this series.
magsmaenad's review
adventurous
dark
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
noellesmagicallibrary's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.5
Volume 1 collects issues 1-3 of this retro teen mystery story. Lance and Friday solve fantastical mysteries in their small town of Kings Hill. But as they grow up, relationships change and Friday leaves town for college. This story takes place when she returns for winter break.
It leaves us on a major cliffhanger (why did you do that to me?!) and I’m so glad that book two is already out so I can keep reading immediately.
As always with graphic novels, the artwork can make or break the story. This art is perfect!! I especially loved the scenes that would spread across two pages.
It leaves us on a major cliffhanger (why did you do that to me?!) and I’m so glad that book two is already out so I can keep reading immediately.
As always with graphic novels, the artwork can make or break the story. This art is perfect!! I especially loved the scenes that would spread across two pages.
kaylee2222's review
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Friday was a great YA horror comic that immediately pulls the reader into another time. The mysterious occurrences of the small town are teased so well and the art is fantastic. It felt like a mix of shadowy Lovecraftian lore meets Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys, and it left me wanting to have more adventures in this dark setting. The main character was refreshing, being at once tough and fragile, smart, yet incapable of escaping the typical emotional dramas of youth. Looking forward to reading more!
tessajohnson's review
5.0
Friday Fitzhugh is home from college for vacation. She's hoping to reconnect with her old friend, Lancelot Jones, and discuss an awkward situation that happened her last night before college. Instead she walks right into a mystery-in-progress, where she and Lancelot fall into old patterns. Familiar, comfortable, but maybe not what she wants right now.
Friday Book One is like reading Encyclopedia Brown as a teenager, told from his friend Sally's point of view, with a touch of gothic magic mixed in. The illustrations are engaging, and while the mystery may be secondary in this coming-of-age graphic novel, it is an intriguing one that is not resolved in the first book. Prepare for a cliffhanger!
Big thanks to Image Comics and NetGalley for the advanced readers copy of this book. All opinions are my own.
Friday Book One is like reading Encyclopedia Brown as a teenager, told from his friend Sally's point of view, with a touch of gothic magic mixed in. The illustrations are engaging, and while the mystery may be secondary in this coming-of-age graphic novel, it is an intriguing one that is not resolved in the first book. Prepare for a cliffhanger!
Big thanks to Image Comics and NetGalley for the advanced readers copy of this book. All opinions are my own.
kennisn's review
4.0
Ed Brubaker kicks of a pulpy YA-noir mystery set in the foggy New England seaside town of Kingâs Hill. âA place that was both old-fashioned and full of mystery at the same time⦠with forests where you could find ancient artifacts of long-dead religions, and the otherworldly echoes they left behind.â If that sounds as enticing to you as it did me - youâre going to love Friday. Marcos MartÃnâs art is at once dark and gloomy and completely vibrant and alive. I canât wait to sink my teeth into Book 2.
jsrogers123's review
3.0
Story's great, doing a collected edition of just three issues is rough. The story just picks up and then its done. Might be worth it to see if they do a different kind of release when the whole story is finished
mmuutthh's review
5.0
Similar to the moment Wes Anderson made Fantastic Mr. Fox, and finding the perfect output for his toys to act out his particular-kind of shenanigans; Friday is what Ed Brubaker has been building to for so long: his own take on a Harriet the Spy-type comic book story. I loved every page of the book. The artwork (by Marcos Martín and Muntsa Vicente) is incredibly stylized and immediately placed me in that 70s location of illustrated books I grew up reading and cartoons I was watching. The only problem is that the production time on this series, as a whole, seems pretty slow. (Based probably on its publishing model as an online comic that is sold in a "pay what you want" format, and also because I'm sure all of the creators here [though no letterer credited and I'm not sure if it's the artist or who that's doing that] are kept pretty busy in other paying gigs.)
Might be one of my favorite comics I've read in a while.
Might be one of my favorite comics I've read in a while.
liketheday's review
4.0
This series is a delight. Perfect for fans of nostalgia and any or all of mystery, fantasy, horror, coming of age, and sarcastic writing.