A gorgeous and imaginative opening to this musically-charged new series from Mad Cave. Read Full Review

Thoughts…This book is a visual blast, there is so much going on your eyes will be all over each and every panel trying to take it all in but you will have to come back to it time and time again to really grasp what is going on. And the story, that will warp your mind as you read it, in a good way. The synopsis does not do justice to what is happening in this book at all, so so much happens in this issue it is crazy.

So the story is hard to explain as there are so many stories all woven together here it is not just about Melody in 1999 but also Melody across time and also multiple different musicians and creators both of music and playwrights. The story of a song and the people connected to it through time. All these people appear throughout the story at the same time as Melody is running for her life or for her mind. She tries to outrun the madness around her as it threatens to consume her.

The art style throughout the issue swaps and changes at the turn of a page, like the change of a song from Rock to Classical music. You get bright bright colours and then black and white tinged with burnt orange, moving to cyan and white highlighted with dark backgrounds. This is such a visual book for something that is about music. There is so much colour to the whole thing, even in the darker pages. There is one page in particular as the book is coming to an end that is spectacular, so so bright and amazingly drawn, this book needs to be seen to be believed.

I don’t want to go into too much detail as that could be spoilers, but this book is awesome, the way it cuts between half remembered thoughts then to moments about different musical artists then back to Melody in danger, then her childhood or is it hers? And who is Echo, what does she want with Melody? This book is actually really loud to read in a way and it will properly get your mind going. There are so many things going on at the same time but it all works really well to great effect at telling a story that is so hard to hold onto but will hook you in nonetheless, it's like you are losing your mind along with Melody. I have read the synopsis of the next two issues and they focus on a different character in each by the looks of it, so it will be interesting to see where this is all leading. I would give this book a 9 out of 10 for sure, what an insane read.
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