In the style of Tales from the Crypt and Creepshow, this certainly has the vibe of humor and horror delivered through art.
It will not be everyone's cup of tea but fans of Heavy Metal and aforementioned comics and vibe will enjoy adding this to the collection.

Stunning illustrations but with a little more sophomoric humor than I care for. Such a variety of illustrative styles it's a shame that I just couldn't get into the narratives.

I didn't really enjoy this one. The art is pretty good but wasn't a huge fan of the story overall. I don't want to speak poorly of it, so I won't be sharing it with my audiences or rating it on bookish social medias. Not every book is for every reader, and that's okay. I appreciate the work that went into this book, so I'll keep my opinions on it to myself.

2.5 stars. I hated two of these stories with a burning passion, but the others weren't so bad. This was a HOT MESS and is not a good representation of the horror genre. Review to come.

Due to being a high school teacher, I often fall behind on writing reviews. Here are my initial thoughts.

This was a rough one. Didn't connect with the stories but found some parts interesting. I did like the artwork though!

I really wish I can say something positive about this comic. I like Dan Fogler and have seen him on Broadway and some of his films. I had some high hopes to enjoy his next venture project into the world of comics. It seemed like he tried to make a Heavy Metal version for Horror but it did not stick the landing. Instead, I feel like it landed but with malfunctioning landing gears.

While the artwork of this comic was beautiful, the storyline was childish and disappointing. I'm not entirely sure if this is the author's style, but from what I can tell from other reviews, fans of Dan Fogler were also disappointed with this, so I would assume that he went a bit off script from his usual work. It's crude and vulgar for no reason at all.

2 STARS

A mysterious portal into the bizarre and demented. Zombie dinosaurs, a mass-murdering high school cheerleader, and an inter dimensional Sasquatch trying to save his species from extinction. All created by the lunar radiation in the small town of Moon Lake.

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Fabulous cover art that I wish reflected what was in the graphic novel! Just not for me.

So much nope. Didn't even make it through the first story. Tapped out at "rape monkey".
Digital review copy provided by NetGalley and the publisher.

Moon Lake: Midnight Munchies is an anthology in the style of classics like Tales from the Crypt or Creepshow. The framing story surrounds a guy who lives inside the moon with his alien companion, telling the stories of various inhabitants of a creepy town called Moon Lake.

I enjoyed parts of Moon Lake and would read further volumes. Although it wasn't "groundbreaking" or phenomenal, it was campy fun. The art is really good and the style varies from story to story, so it doesn't feel redundant, although sometimes the "humor" is just gross-out humor that isn't real all that funny. "His Final Escape!" is my favorite story in this collection. I think if more of the stories were like that, "Black Bear Blues" and "Moon Wars," this collection would have been far better. Instead, it seemed like the author went for more fart jokes and sexualization than was necessary.

Note: I received a free copy from NetGalley to review. I was not compensated in any other way and all thoughts and opinions are my own. Special thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for the free copy.

Amazing graphics. Creepy story.

A definite need for anyone who is into creepy, gory stories.

5/5.

Had very high hopes for this GN and must admit to being let down almost instantly. The art and inking is fantastic for the most part. The plot.... What plot? Yeah, the plot is somewhat missing in action, out on an orienteering expedition or was most likely never thought of. A real shame that such wonderful artwork has been wasted on a tale that heldso much promise.

( 4 Star for the artwork )
( 2 star overall rating )

** I WAS GIVEN THIS BOOK FOR MY READING PLEASURE **
Copy received through Netgalley

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Moon Lake, by Dan Fogler
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156 Pages


I chose this because of the cover and the blurb, but...dear God, WTF is this?
I'm sorry to say I read as far as the atrocious “Fuck Week” song which – shivers – precedes a kid's summer camp. That trash was then followed by *gag* monkey rape, gross indecency, dry heaving (me!) and running to DNF while gouging my eyes out.
And that was just the first 27 pages...of 107.

On top of all that – the story? Was there one? Maybe it got missed in the crass, juvenile attempt at humour. The art work? I was 100% all in when I saw the cover. I was expecting Shape of Water level creatures, with that stunning cover artwork throughout, and what I got was...some 1970 pre-teen's comic book with “pull-my-finger” and fart jokes that I'm supposed to...what? Roll over dying of laughter? At this? Nope. The artwork was a second-rate Archie comic, focusing on as much porn as they could fit into the pages.

If you can survive the Amazon Kindle sample without gagging or rolling your eyes, you deserve every page of what comes next. Enjoy.

If not, I suffered this, so now you don't have to. You're welcome.
And can you please pass the mind-disinfectant, so I forget I ever read this?

It's rare I give anything under 3 stars because I'm pretty easy to please. If I had a good time reading something, boom 3 stars. This...was not the case. I was drawn in by both the stellar cover art and Dan Fogler, should be a winning combination. I was really disappointed, I mean REALLY disappointed. The main issue is that the novel is all short stories, which would be fine, but in this case there's just not enough time to make the reader care about each tale. I can see where the effort was made to bring together classic 80's horror and humor but it just all felt rushed and crass. I'm all for horror and gore if there's a point to it, like making my skin crawl or adding to the horror of the scene. This all felt, like a 30-year-old man making a "pull my finger" joke, it was awkward and didn't hit the mark. That said, the idea for the graphic novel was good it just needed more polish to really be great.

This was like a bad, schlocky, 80's horror film. Fogler mistakes being gross with being funny. The stories are over the top with more attention paid to beastiality jokes and topless women more than anything else. I like Dan Fogler the actor when he's reined in in things like Fantastic Beasts. But this is grossout Dan Fogler at his most boorish.

This book was not for me. It was over the top, unnecessarily crass, and just over all not well written. I'm sorry that I wasted my time reading it. 100% would not recommend this to anyone unless they're out of toilet paper.

I rarely, I mean rarely rate something one star. But this was just awful. It was crude, obscene, violent just to be violent, and I’m a bit irritated that it compares itself to Tales from the Crypt and other amazing stories. Those stories all had something in common that they had a lesson to learn, even when the evildoers didn’t get “punished” for their actions. But there didn’t seem to be any point to this.

This just seemed like an excuse to throw together a bunch of gross stories under the same cover. The only story that was worthwhile was the last one, but by that point, I was already completely over the whole disgusting thing. I’m talking, intimate scenes with animals, this dude eating aliens, and all kinds of stuff that I don’t really want to get into. I can take a good amount of violence and grossness, but hot dang, this was just uggghhhh!!!!

Sometimes the art can save even a bad story from being a one star read, but this isn’t one of them!! I was sorely disappointed in most of the art save for a few parts, including the last story, however, as I mentioned, I was so disgusted with the rest of it that the one story didn’t save the book. So I much as I hate to do this, it’s a one star read. I cannot recommend this and in fact recommend you stay away.

Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion.

I had no idea what I was getting myself into with this book, but that didn't stop me. Full of hilarious adult humour, nudity, gore, and scifi goodness, Once I picked it up I couldn't put it down, and I wouldn't have wanted it any other way. If you're looking for any of that, then you'll want to grab a copy for yourself.

Beginning with an eccentric intro about how Moon Lake came to being, The Earth being a lonely single mother to her bastard son, The Moon, and his undoing because of being used as a blast shield for years and years from space rocks. How he eventually took his anger out on the planet itself, casting down a chunk of himself and creating what is known today as Moon Lake, an irradiated graveyard of a lake where really weird stuff happens. And that's just the beginning.

From a sex camp full of people who turn into monkeys, to epic space battles on the moon against aliens, even to a cheerleader that loses her mind after the worst day possible and goes on a killing spree. This book has it all. And it does it all and still is able to stay really funny in the process. Though, it does go up and down. The stories have their own art styles that fit perfectly, and make each story beautifully horrific in their own special ways. I couldn't ask for anything more from this book, and I'm glad that I got the chance to check it out.

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'Moon Lake' by Dan Fogler with a variety of artists is a comic anthology series with stories about a strange place on our planet.

Our host is a robust man who lives on the moon and enjoys dining on the gray aliens that seem to be surrounding him endlessly. The stories are all only linked by geography, I think. One is crazed cheerleader on a gory murder spree after getting a day full of bad news. There are zombie dinosaurs in another story.

It's supposed to be gory and funny, and while it's gory enough, I didn't like the humor at all. It all feels like trying to hard. The art styles vary quite a bit, and I liked most of it, but this felt like a waste of time.

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

I hated everything about this comic. I really tried to read past through the horrible and dry humour and the heavy sexual content but I really didn't want to torture myself and waste my time reading this. Definitely a DNF and will never touch it again.

I skimmed through the whole thing and I see that it changes artstyle often (I'm not sure why though) but it was just full of nude women that made me even more not want to read any more of this.

Thank you Netgalley for providing me with the digital copy for an honest review.