#rachel rising

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Zoe by Terry Moore

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Do you know this queer character?

Aunt Johnny is a Lesbian and uses She/Her pronouns!

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Rachel Rising #30, December 2014, cover by Terry Moore

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They're cute ! I was a Rachel/Jet shipper at first but those two grew on me. They're absolutely helpless

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Rachel Rising #34 - Cover by Terry Moore.

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Comics Read 02/04- 06/2023

I am writing a quick update for the quickly read Ever written and drawn by Terry Moore. This comics is seventy two pages long and was never released in any format other than the trade paperback. I thought it would be unrelated to the larger Terry Moore Verse but after reading it seems to be picking up on the world building from Rachel Rising, in particular Lilith, first person  in existence (and sister of Rachel).

A lot of this takes place in the the Garden of Eden. there is a debate about how a prophecy will play out. I didn’t really care for it, though I will say it includes some of Moore’s most beautiful art. I am not sure how much I want to stay as  the Terry Moore Verse. I have the Serial Omnibus and will read and review it later this year. But the Parker Girls were some of my least favorite characters and plots in Strangers in Paradise, so I am not excited to read a comic named Parker Girls. And after Ever, I don’t know why I want to continue in this universe. 

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Comic Book Saturday

Right. So, Rachel is dead. Or, rather, when she wakes up and claws her way out of a shallow grave, it doesn’t appear that she’s alive, or dead, or even really a zombie. Oh, and she was murdered too. So, yeah, not a great day. She doesn’t really have memories from the day before she woke up dead. She goes to help from her Aunt Johnny, we also meet Zoe, a kid (yikes kid) as well as a bunch of other characters in this volume, and the next few that just kept me guessing about what in the world was going to happen next.

To start, the world building in this (and the following) volumes was intense and awesome, the characters were all so very unique, and the questions. So so many delightful questions after this volume.

You may like this book If you Liked: Tombs by Junji Ito, Revival by Tim Seeley, or Dwellings by Jay Stephens

Rachel Rising, Volume 1: The Shadow of Death by Terry Moore

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Zoe by Terry Moore

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RACHEL BERRY x THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS

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Rachel Grey in Rise of the Powers of X #2 (2024), art by R. B. Silva.

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Terry Moore's Rachel Rising #7 - cover by Terry Moore.

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Comics Read 09/07-18/2023

Over this period I read Serial written and drawn by Terry Moore. Earlier this year I read Moore’s Ever, and in my post about it I mentioned that I would use my read of the already purchased Serial to decide whether or not to continue with the Terry Moore universe. I liked Serial more than Ever, but I still think it’s time for an indefinite hiatus from this universe. The fact that his current series is titled and about the Parker Girls does nothing to sway this decision. There weren’t any direct references to the Parker Girls in Serial (though there was a panel in which a character was misnamed Mrs. Parker, when the rest of the time she’s Mrs. Baker) but I still don’t think I like the direction enough to continue.

The story involves Zoe, the immortal murderous being in the body of a forever ten year old girl introduced in Rachel Rising. HereZoe finds herself on the trail of Jenni, a vigilante going after mostly pedophiliac men. Her kill list includes the wife of one, who happens to be a friend of Zoe’s from another life. By Jenni’s estimation she must have known about her husband and been an abuser too, or at least an enabler. Zoe disagrees, despite the fact that she had not been in touch with her friend for years.

There weren’t additional characters from other parts of the Terry Moore verse, (at least none that I recognized) but it was distinctly of the universe. The plots’s various backstories of childhood abuse are mostly excuses for these two women to get very violent. Attraction to images of women acting violently has always been a motivating factor for what gets Moore to make comics. During the climactic fight Zoe and Jenni argue about whether they have anything in common. Jenni declares that they do, but Zoe insists that they don’t. However, the only argument that Zoe offers that seemed to hold weight for me was pointing out that unlike her, Jenni didn’t have a sense of humor. I have to admit that I didn’t find any of the jokes Zoe cracked during their fight funny either, but she did make them. I am not sure Moore really has a side in this debate about his murderous characters. Ultimately, I don’t think the abuse described to justify the violence feels worth evoking for foddering this plot. Jenni’s anger is somewhat righteous, (even if her vigilantism is indefensible) but Moore undermines it with things like giving a lot of space to her abusers interpretation of their time together. He might have been going for some kind of ambiguity, but mostly just comes off as a sensationalist who should think of creating some limits to apply to himself.

The book does feel like an advance in Moore’s drawing, which includes some beautiful nature scenes and creative use of shading. But it also feels like a return to the anything goes, directionless parts of Strangers in Paradise, and I’m not feeling up for the ride.

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Comic Book Saturday

What is Rachel? Even Rachel doesn’t quite know. She’s her, but not her, also, yeah, she can’t really get hurt. It all starts when Rachel wakes up in a shallow grave, she was dead apparently, and then she wasn’t, sorta kinda. Oh, and, she definitely wants to find out who killed her (no memory of the night before she wound up in the shallow grave).

This was awesome (not surprising since it’s Terry Moore). It was a lot of thriller and supernatural, and some horror in there too. And, such a fun read. Can’t read to dig into the next volumes.

You may like this book If you Liked: Tombs by Junji Ito, Revival by Tim Seeley, or Gideon Falls by Jeff Lemire

Rachel Rising, Vol. 1: The Shadow of Death by Terry Moore