The story follows Kyle Barnes, an isolated man in a small town whose life has been plagued with demon possession. It’s about abuse and the way abuse takes people’s agency away from them. Outcast, at its core, is a story about the hidden toxicity of small towns. Is his latest series, Outcast, an exception? Kirkman is the American Comic’s King of milking his series past the point that I’m interested in reading. However, a quick Google search revealed to me that keeping up with these series involved a decade of issues and a couple hundred dollars in investments. They were compelling and so incredibly readable that I couldn’t wait to pick up the next volumes. When I read the first trades of the Walking Dead and Invincible, I was floored. My problem with Robert Kirkman is that he doesn’t know when to stop. Kirkman’s good at writing characters, he’s good at twisting tired set-ups into something engaging, and most of all, he’s good at controlling sequential art. On the contrary, every book I’ve ever picked up by him has surprised me by just how much I enjoyed it.
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