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Sing it with me if you know the words:

"The Hills are alive...

with missing memORies..."


Blue Book, the comic retelling of terrifying UFO abductions, is on its third issue. Weird place to jump in with a review, right? Well, the first two issues are still available and if this is your jam (or jelly, no judgements), you won't want to wait.


Betty and Barney Hill were driving home in New Hampshire, when something happened involving some sort of flying object, an unidentified one at that. Finding themselves at home four hours later than expected, this gap set them on a quest to try and find out and fill in what occurred that fateful night.

The answers have spinning discs, lights in the skies, and big, black eyes.


It doesn't hurt that this project is spearheaded by horror maestro James Tynion, and drawn/colored by Michael Avon Oeming. The artwork is sparse, heavy blacks, monochromatic pallete, and on the right side of cartooning. The storytelling is direct, but it doesn't feel like Tynion is just taking the many other tellings of the Hills and running them through ChatGPT. He's repurposed this for comics alone. Recommended for people who know the last ten minutes of Fire In The Sky are the most terrifying ever put to film, and people on the ground likely to say look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! and then vanish.