It's Your Funeral (graphic novel) - Paul's REVIEW

*I received this book as an eARC from Iron Circus Comics via edelweiss. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.*

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Title: It's Your Funeral
Author: Emily Riesbeck
Artists: Ellen Kramer & Matt Krotzer
Release Date: July 21, 2020


Synopsis: Marnie Winters was going to turn her life around; get out of the house, make friends, no more “Miserable Old Marnie!” Everything was going to plan, but then, of course, she died. Now, Marnie’s a ghost trapped on Earth, and the only one who can help her is the overenthusiastic, alien social worker, Xel, whose job is to help ghosts “close their file” and pass on. Are you ready for a sweetly nostalgic trip through Marnie’s life, correcting mistakes and righting what once went wrong? Well sorry, this isn’t that story! Xel has a much better idea to soothe Marnie’s troubled spirit: an internship in the hopeless bureaucracy of the trans-dimensional Department of Spectral Affairs!

This new do-gooder duo has their work cut out for them in a series of hilarious mishaps and misadventures throughout the space-time continuum (but mostly in and around the office) as Marnie finds pathways through her feelings of worthlessness by helping others.

A paranormal fantasy about healing, learning to love yourself, and being OK with being not OK, It’s Your Funeral is the cosmic office comedy you’ve been dying to read! 

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Review: The Department of Spectral Affairs. This comic is essentially The Office meets a paranormal afterlife. The first issue is really fun and establishes the world well through the main character who is unfamiliar with the afterlife. The premise of the series is set up well: a ghost as an intern, essentially. Each issue following gives a little more focus on the other residents of the office.

This book is a fun, light-hearted story about people making sure dead spirits pass on to the next dimension. The characters are quirky, both in personality and illustration, and it's a pleasant read. It doesn't go to deep. I give this book a 4/5.


--PAUL