"YOU ARE OBSOLETE" is a story of intrigue and technological suspension that will make you feel like in the horror films of the 70s with a digital touch of today.
The story tells the story of a miserable journalist who is called to cover a mysterious story on an isolated European island. When he starts investigating, he discovers that the children have taken control of the island thanks to a strange technology linked to their smartphones and are finding a way to eliminate all the adults before they turn 40.
The journalist is forced to uncover the truth behind the murders while remaining in the grace of the severe children's leader... or she will be the next to fall.
With a tense plot and a disturbing setting, "YOU ARE OBSOLETE" is an electronic thriller that will keep you on the lookout throughout the reading.

Ok for what it is.
The cover and art were promising and after reading it I'll say at Least the Art stayed up to par. The story itself while somewhat dark, creepy, and horror themed fell flat in the execution and follow through. Didn't feel finished at the conclusion to me and the entire story felt like a copy from so many 80/90/2000's horror films featuring creepy kids as the main theme but thrown in today's technology and you get this.
Luckily Graphic novels are short so you don't waste much when it's a let down.
Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to read this Arc.

Why are we giving our life to a screen? What leads us to leave our privacy in exchange for likes? This graphic novel talks about it in a way that is ironic, horrifying and funny at the same time. Very entertaining.

a little on-the-nose, but a horror story about kids obsessed with their smart phones seems like just the sort of thing a series like Twilight Zone would cover. I liked it, even though it was kind of cheesy and predictable.

Disgraced journalist and alcoholic Lyla Wilton is contacted to investigate an island where all the adults die by their 40th birthday and the kids are all controlled by an app and lead by Martina. Martina’s goal in summoning Lyla is to move her influence from the tiny island to controlling all the children in the world.



This comic feels like an episode of Twilight Zone, directly referencing it in that it’s bleak, depressing, topical, and leaves a bad taste in your mouth. But it’s too on the nose. If you’ve ever read or seen a story with “the evil little kid” or “technology is taking over the world” storyline in it, there isn’t much new here. I like the art, I like that the protagonist is a pill popping alcoholic woman instead of the usual grizzled guy like a Stephen King character. It’s an alright book but it didn’t stand out for me. 3 out of 5.

Could not really get into the story though I did like the art style and the premise. I think the execution could have been better.

This was a fun little horrifying graphic novel! I had no idea what to expect and I knew nothing about it when I started it. It was crazy and scary! lol.

Strives to be a modern day, technology-driven version of <i>Village of the Damned</i> but fails miserably. Klickstein seemed more concerned on giving a social commentary than telling a coherent story. This is filled with logic leaps, macguffins, and just plain unexplained pieces of story that left you feeling lost. The art was solid though.

I liked some of the Children of the Corn-y aspect, but I'm not sure how much 'You Are Obsolete' was trying to be an indictment of social media or children and screen time or when adults tend to think of themselves as over the hill. There were a few between issue continuity leaps that took me out of the book a bit, along with some of the prolonged Cheshire Cat-like grins.

A fantastic look at modern culture and social media influence. Beautifully drawn and inked. A disturbing tale bringing the realities of "Screen Time" to the fore. I loved the story itself and the imagery is really something to behold.

Thank you to the publisher and to Netgalley for the advance copy of this book!

The atmosphere was everything I wanted it to be. I loved the plot and storyline in the book. I loved the characters in this story. It gave me all the feels I was looking for when I started reading this. I highly recommend this author. I loved the writing. I will be looking for other works in the future from this author.

'You are Obsolete' by Matthew Klickstein with art by Evgeniy Bornyakov is a graphic novel about a group of creepy kids and technology.

An out or work journalist gets called to do a story on a remote European island. When she arrives, things seem off. What she finds is a group of overly happy adults, a cemetery with a bunch of recently dug grave, and a group of odd kids addicted to their phones.

It's a story that feels like an updated version with a nod to Logan's Run. It's a horror story where all the gore seems to happen off the page. I even had a hard time liking the protagonist. The art was decent enough, I just kept waiting for something bigger to happen in this bland story.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

REVIEW: You are Obsolete

A journalist with a shady past is summoned to an isolated European island. She is supposed to write a story, but when she gets there, she realizes it was the children who summoned her. Something is horribly wrong, people are disappearing and the children seem to be responsible. Will she find the truth? Will she survive?

Everything about this story is creepy. It reminds me of old horror movies. You are missing pieces of the story and as they slowly fall into place you just find yourself getting more and more shocked. It feels like things couldn’t possibly work out for our main character. Mathew Klickstein keeps you on the edge of your seat waiting for more.

The art by Evgeniy Bornyakov is so well done. Before you even know that the kids are up to something you know something isn’t right. From page one, the adults all look scared and the kids all look angry. The adults are trying to pretend that things are normal. But when the adults smile, they remind me of the Joker's victims. They have that huge smile that doesn't show joy, it shows pure terror. Later we meet a musician with the words Help Us is drawn inside her eyes. The book is full of examples like this that help sell the eerie feeling created by the children.

The colors also add to the atmosphere. Dark shades in tragic scenes but soft blues in dream states. Everything about this book from colors to letters, words to art, creates a creepy effect that will leave you wanting more. You are Obsolete is everything I love in a horror story.

5 of 5 stars

Creative Team:
Creator and Writer: Mathew Klickstein
Artist: Evgeniy Bornyakov
Colors: Lauren Affe, Pippa Bowland, Francesca Citarelli
Letters: Simon Bowland
Published by Aftershock

An island in Estonia is being ruled by children who kill everyone over 40 because “You are Obsolete.” The children’s leader, Martina, has asked Livia to tell their story to the world. Livia is horrified.

Just because you call out the source material you are copying (Twilight Zone and Logan’s Run), doesn’t make it okay. You are Obsolete puts the slightest coat of paint over someone else’s story by adding in social media and a literally killer app.

The art is great, which is why this book gets 3 stars from me.

Thanks to Aftershock Comics and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

A book that, in trying too hard to do what its creators can't quite manage, ends up full of quite weird decisions. It's a weird decision that puts a civilisation-changing SOMETHING on a bog-standard creepily quiet genre-setting island off the coast of Estonia, for one. It's a weird decision to have everything and everyone so blatantly odd, when all the works this riffs off (Midwich Cuckoos, The Twilight Zone, even that there dodgy Stepford Children TV movie) have at least a modicum of subtlety. And that's before our lead character's many weird decisions are revealed on these pages. Oh, and it's a brave decision to dress the lead evil like Christina Ricci in the Addams Family films.

Basically, our heroine wanted to be a journalist before the online world flamed her into ignominy. She sees this trip to the Estonian island as a way to try and claw back some respectability, with the help of a scoop, but finds instead all the children plugged into their phones, pretty much all the adults gurning their way to middle-age, and a heck of a lot of graves being dug. Shame, then, on this wonderful journalist for only reading one of the tombstones, for she'd have worked it all out three issues beforehand if she did. The creators' abilities then are shown to falter with clunky exposition, silly beat after silly beat, misguided decision after poor idea after dodgy drama, all to build to a farcically sudden and inappropriate ending. Make sure you've nothing on your Kindle before checking this out the lending library - those there two stars are generous

I'm always on the lookout for new graphoc novels, and this one sounded like it could be really interesting in a dystopian, Michael Grant's "Gone" kind of way. Unfortunately, not only did it not deliver, I decidedly disliked the book, and only finished it because it was mercifully short, and I kept thinking it would redeem itself.

Spoiler - it did not.

The art was okay. Not my jam, but artist is clearly talented. However, the plot and characters failed on so many levels, leaving a totally unbelievable story with unlikeable characters, nonsensical twists and an ending that left absolutely nothing resolved.

So do yourselves a favour and give this one a miss.

This had avery intriguing premise but sadly for me it didn't deliver. The idea of the children was very creepy but to not follow through on that left me disappointed, and the ending didnt really make sense.

Thank you Diamond, Aftershock, and Netgalley for the digital ARC.

This was an interesting nihistic read. It is very much a update of Village of the Damned with a technological spin. The challenge with it is that our narrator is a very flawed character and as the book only follows their actions as a reader we are left with a lot of questions that don't have answers and a very dark tale about abdicating authority over child rearing.

A disgraced journalist is contacted for an exclusive story about children on remote European island, and since she’s unlikely to get a job soon, she accepts and becomes embroiled in a world where the children have invented a killer app, literally, an app that renders people around 40 “obsolote” by killing them.

I enjoyed this one. The art was killer good, excuse the pun, and the story called back many of my favorite things from childhood, including The Twilight Zone and Logan’s Run. It reminded me of a modernized “Children of the Corn” meets “It’s a Good Life.” There were plenty of notable philosophical references, and the story moved very quickly, so no chance for a lull. There are some twists and turns, which kept it interesting, and I’m a huge nerd for sci-fi horror that has deep roots.

It’s out at the end of this month, so if you’re wishing for fall at the beginning of summer like me, it’s sure to put you in a creepy mood. Plus, we’re all basically living in an episode of Black Mirror in 2020 anyway, may as well lean into it. Can’t say I’d be too surprised if this story started happening in smalltown America next week. JK, well. Maybe.

What drew me to the graphic novel first of was the front cover, it was somewhat creepy but in a good way, drawing me in. The story itself reminded me of children of the Corn by Stephen King, with other interesting references added also. For some, it shows what is possible and what can be done with a simple mobile phone, to the point where they are not just controlling their own lives but the lives of those around them.

The art is very well drawn and was helped by the colouring. The way the artist drew the expressions on the characters faces was intriguing and unusual. So was the attention to detail. I enjoyed the use of wide panels and close up on eyes expressing a lot. I enjoyed reading this graphic novel a lot and would like to see how the story continues.