Echoes is the story of Brian Cohn, a loving husband and expectant father who is living with schizophrenia. On his deathbed, Brian’s father confesses to a life as a serial killer, and a horrifying secret hidden at an abandoned suburban home. Things go from bad to worse, as Brian starts to question if he and his father share the same madness, and Brian’s carefully-maintained sense of normalcy gives way to an ongoing nightmare. But is that really what happened?
The author generates the tension in this story by bringing everything close to home. The killers here aren’t monsters from hockey masks, they’re our neighbors. Which carries its own brand of horror.
The thing that I like about this is that while Brian's struggles are very real and different from the thinking most of us experience, but we are rooting for him to come out on top. A swiftly read but not easily forgotten graphic novel.
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