This title was so good. There was so much additional content and cited sources. The additional content really added to this whole story. This story made me cry and I am not easily moved. The sheer determination and selflessness. Just amazing. The art style , LOVED IT ! So surreal and just relatable like I could envision everyone as a real person. That really added to the overall effect for me.

A lady with psychic abilities to communicate with the dead is on a road trip with Death. To apparently revenge those who need it and she also has another mission to get her Mom to the other coast. Very interesting and hints at some back story, but nothing tangible yet. Will definitely read the next issue.

3 stars

Unfortunately I dnf’ed this. The story was confusing and I feel like chunks were missing as some parts just ended with no explanation or the story just cut off.
The premise of this story, as mentioned in the synopsis, is Death "kidnapping" Emilia and they are on a road trip.
The artwork is brilliant, that’s what drew me in to read it. It’s super detailed and really well done. It’s just a shame that the story flops so badly.
5* - Artwork & Cover
2* - Plot

Loved the illustration and the way death was able to fall in love with the maiden even though he knew that there was never a possibility of them falling in love. The story is beautiful and will have you on the edge of your seat until the very end.

Do you ever get to the end of a book and think, "Huh, well, that's...a thing I read"?

That's basically how I feel after finishing volume one of Two Graves, which follows Emilia, who apparently can't die, and Death on a road trip across the United States. But of course, a road trip with Death wouldn't be much of an adventure if you weren't also being pursued by a trio of Hunters, right? And what's a road story without some underdeveloped, inadequately nuanced emotional angst between the unlikely travelers?

(And while I'm asking questions, what's with the essays that punctuate each of the volume's sections? I get that there's one by each contributor, but...was I supposed to care about them?)

This book is obviously setting up something pretty intricate. However, the whole time I was reading I felt like I was missing something—like I was supposed to have already read a prequel or something. I also found the artwork to be somewhat uneven—the postcards that ended each issue and the single-frame pages that started them were stunning, but the narrative pages were just kind of meh, neither vivid nor bleak enough to keep me drawn into the story.

I suspect that Two Graves: Wish You Were Here would have read better if I'd had the entire series in hand to binge through in one sitting. Unfortunately, the set-up in this volume wasn't strong enough to make me seek out the remaining titles.

[I read an ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review.]

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this e-ARC for an honest review.
First I really love the art but… the story was confusing and poorly written nothing is explained and I didn’t connect with any of the characters.
Rating ⭐️

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this e-ARC.

I have to admit, I was pretty lost for a majority of this. The artwork is wonderful. The story needs some work. There were many allusions to the mystery of what was happening. I feel this would just be better off revealed after the second or third time it is brought up. The premise of this story, as mentioned in the synopsis, is Death "kidnapping" Emilia. I feel like the I read it the other way around: Emilia made Death her bitch, and they're being hunted by beings who want to stop him when they should be stopping her LOL. Other than that, the characters were flat and didn't offer any redemption for the weak plot.

With editing and redrafting, this story would make more sense to readers.

the art is really what redeemed this from a one-star review for me. so much of the plot felt very unexplained and it feels like we’re just plopped into a story already in progress at the beginning of the book. i understand this is serialized but i kept feeling like i was having more questions pop up rather than getting resolved. just feels like the writers bit off a bit more than they could chew and could’ve made a much more compelling story if it was grounded wholly on emilia and “death,” none of these extraneous characters.

This was my first comic book. The pictures was good . It was hard for me to keep interested in the story . This book was not for me .

Netgalley review, possible plot points mentioned below.

I don't think this book was for me. The cover pulled me in but nothing really kept a hold on me.

If I'm going to be honest, my biggest problem was that I did not understand much that happened, I couldn't even understand the conversations between Emilia and Death (?) half the time. The characters would say one thing while doing / saying the opposite immediately after and it just left me confused on anyone's intentions.

In the beginning you are dropped abruptly into the story and nothing is explained ever, how they met, why he lets her travel this long, anything about the reapers (?), etc. If they actually did at some point, then it went over my head. It's to be expected in the first novel of a series to not get all the answers but I think there needs to be something, some amount of knowledge told for any understanding and to keep the readers wanting more.

I think there's potential in this universe to be fun and interesting but I'm just not fully seeing the vision in this first volume.

I thank the authors and netgalley for giving me the chance to read and review this book.

Not for me. I didn’t like it because it was hard to follow the story. The artwork was good though. I wish there had been some kind of backstory to introduce us to main characters.