Brisson & Gorham's "The Violent" Plays on Every Parent's Nightmares

[CBR News]

Writer Ed Brisson tells CBR News about how his own fears and anxieties inform his new Image Comics crime series with artist Adam Gorham.


Full article here.

[Ragdoll]

This article feels like it was written solely to counteract the complaints people (myself included) had about this book in the other thread. As a parent, I was not feeling this book. I don't mind books that put kids in jeopardy, but I don't like that this book wants me to be on the side of the people directly putting their child in danger. Like, the first few pages have the main character do enough to warrant the government taking someone's child away from them, let alone the shitstorm they get into by the ending.

[frizb]

I'm gonna keep checking it out just to see where it goes

[sven]

I hate kids so maybe this is the book for me.

[caramon]

I really liked issue 1 - already on my pull for the future issues.

[krylox]

i am a father and loved this debut issue exactly because i was feelin' unconfortable and the fact it's not played safe. keep it up, mr brisson (and mr gorham of course, loved the artwork) and don't soften anything up, so that every middle-class person can relate to everything. it's supposed to be disturbing and families aren necessarily a good place to be all the time and they just mirror the bigger picture around them so...
this has a very stray bullets feel to it, but i really hope it will stay more on the everyday part of live and't don't go too much into the crime thing. because: that would be a novel thing to do.
also great character interaction (dialogues) and dynamics, really, just keep it going for a year or two.

[DIVINITY]

I really liked issue 1 - already on my pull for the future issues.

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