SHIFT is a really cool genre blend of Science Fiction, Crime Noir, Romance, and Fantasy. It’s a cool mix, and helps deliver an original tale about lovSHIFT is a really cool genre blend of Science Fiction, Crime Noir, Romance, and Fantasy. It’s a cool mix, and helps deliver an original tale about love, family, and mental illness, all wrapped around a murder mystery. Rivera should be writing screenplays, as this story jumps off the page and the way her dialogue is penned has a real cinematic feel to it. Literature-wise, the descriptions and prose are most definitely above-average, and Rivera really takes her careful time in developing her world, her characters, and her feelings on every page. An absolute pleasure to read, a very underrated work of Indie Fiction, and I look forward to any future books by Coral Rivera, especially if there's a Shift sequel in the works....more
The incredible art saves this from being a 1-star turd. I read issue #1 of this series when it first came out and LOVED it. So much so that I'd debateThe incredible art saves this from being a 1-star turd. I read issue #1 of this series when it first came out and LOVED it. So much so that I'd debated simply buying the collected TPB when it came out. But because I'm a cheap bastard I didn't buy the hardcover. By the time the softcover was finally released, I couldn't find it anywhere and decided I'd just download it. SO GLAD I did. The first issue is really the only one worth reading in this series. The book takes a detour from the original idea in issues 2-6, and then finally wraps up where it started in #7. By that time I could care less. The set-up seemed so fresh and an interesting new direction for a cool character, but then we just get garbage filler that could be summed up in a sentence and a half. Again, worth looking at just for Maleev's art, but completely forgettable. A great example of why to hate Brian Michael Bendis....more
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