Home Sick Pilots: Teenage Haunts

by Dan Watters, Caspar Wijngaard, Aditya Bidikar, Tom Muller

Genres: Graphic Novels, Horror
Pages: 144
Series: Home Sick Pilots #1
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Synopsis:

In the summer of 1994, a haunted house walks across California. Inside is Ami, lead singer of a high school punk band—who’s been missing for weeks. How did she get there? What do these ghosts want? And does this mean the band has to break up?Expect three-chord songs and big bloody action as Power Rangers meets The Shining (yes really), and as writer DAN WATTERS (Lucifer, COFFIN BOUND) and artist CASPAR WIJNGAARD (LIMBO, Star Wars, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt) delve into the horrors of misspent youth.

I’d never heard of Dan Watters’ Home Sick Pilots before, but I decided to give volume 1 a try because it was on Comics Plus (and it filled a reading bingo square, ahaha). I ended up really enjoying it: it’s a bit gory, but I liked the character designs and action scenes quite a bit, and the way the story opened up from being a simple story about a girl getting caught up in a haunting to something bigger.

Certain aspects didn’t turn out the way I was expecting, either — I don’t want to say too much, because it’s probably worth finding out what happens to all the characters yourself, but at the end of the first volume they weren’t all where I expected them to be, let’s say.

I’d definitely like to read more, if it gets added to Comics Plus; I might even grab the next volume on Kobo or something, if they have it… and yep, it’s on Kobo Plus! So I’ll try to get to that soon and finish up the story. It’s not one of my comfy genres, but I’m really curious about where it’ll go.

Rating: 4/5 (“really liked it”)