I will have to come back to this when I have more brain for a review, but I thought this was a brilliant comic with important themes, gorgeous/ harrowing art, and genuinely human feeling characters and dialogue. ( )

This is an absolutely important work of sequential storytelling. In her introduction for Infidel, American author Tananarive Due talks about how in the age of Jordon Peele’s Get Out, a new wave of horror has arrived, bringing with it stories featuring inclusive characters all readers can identify with while using the genre to reflect on real-life horrors such as racism and xenophobia. This new wave is here and after the protests we been witnessing across the United States, this new wave is so vital. Indidel is genuinely creepy and riveting haunted house story on the surface but it is actually about how there are spiritual forces at work that are trying to divide us, when we the human race, although diverse, are one. The story follows an American Muslim woman (Aisha) and her multi-racial neighbors who move into a building haunted by xenophobia. When the demonic entities within her building frame Aisha for murder, it is up to her best friend to solve the mystery at the center of this story and destroy this haunted house of hatred for good.

Infidel is both timely and freaky and it left me an emotional wreck. Get it. Read it. Freak out. Weep. ( )

It was great but felt rushed. I wish it would have been 3 trade paperbacks worth of material to flesh out the other characters. ( )

Infidel takes full advantage of graphic novel form to deliver a horror story that, put simply, could not be told with nearly so much impact in a novel. The pervasiveness of hate leak in at every edge of the text, illustrating the terror and stress of living with xenophobia, racism, and islamophobia--and in a way that displays just how unthinking and casual such hatred can be for those displaying it. And all of that terror is before the supernatural comes into play.

This isn't an easy book to read, and it shouldn't be. It is, however, powerful and clever, with gorgeous art, smart turns and twists, and even some jump scares, believe it or not. It's shot to the top of my favorites list when it comes to graphic novels, and if you haven't already looked it up, I hope you well.

Absolutely recommended. ( )

Not to be confused with the 1983 Infocom game, this acclaimed graphic novel is about a young American Muslim woman and Star Wars fan who has nightmares about racist demons. It’s a unique, fast-paced horror story with art that’s hella good and gory.

I’m not sure what the message is, though. Maybe it’s that prejudice is like a demon the way it possesses people. And this demon is so powerful, one’s only hope is to have faith in people. There’s a subplot about an occultist, and I’m not sure whether it connects to the main plot or is just a red herring. I didn’t like the book as much as the game it’s not based on, though I think it would make a good movie. (A movie deal did happen, but I don’t know if anything will come of it.)

The book includes the proposal that the creative team pitched to the publisher, which is pretty cool. It’s interesting how the proposal’s vision evolved into the final product. ( )