*Read through NetGalley as an ARC in exchange for an honest review*
Honestly this was fantastic! Truly so many twists and turns — Alice, Maggie, & Hazel were amazing together. I only wish I could have friendships like these girls, it was so much fun to read! I read it in one sitting, as it was soo hard to put down for me. Three girls in a band AND they have witchy powers?? Hell yes! (Pun intended)

This story takes us through the ups & downs of friendship, family drama, the feeling of not being good enough, and so much more. The art work was so amazing, I flipped through again once I was finished just to really take in all the details. The magic system it was really unique and something I’ve never really seen before. BCSC is so much fun, I can’t wait to pick up a physical copy.

I enjoyed the art, letters were done well. I didn't feel like anything didn't go well together. It was a fun story, but it didn't really stand out in anyway to me. I think I am just not the target audience. I do think my students might enjoy it.

3 stars

ARC provided by NetGalley.

This was a cute graphic novel, a bit cheesy at times so not my favorite but overall decent. It gave me Hex girl vibes but with more goodness attached to it. I think the story was a bit rushed and felt very fast but I do like the overarching storyline and thought it was a fun read especially for our high schoolers. Will buy for the library.

A witchy graphic novel about casting musical spells? Yes, please!

Black Cat Social Club is a punk rock band of three witches, playing their way through the LA music scene. When one of our gals begins to struggle with her level of magic and starts to doubt her place in the band. Desperate times, call for desperate measures… and maybe a pack with a demon.

BCSC takes use on a journey of self-doubt, discovery, friendship, and a monster-pocalypse. Yep, you read that right! But will our girls be able to overcome their struggles and save the world?

For me, the best part of the story was the artwork. It was absolutely amazing, fun and full of color that popped right off the pages.

As soon as I saw 'punk rock witches' in the blurb, I knew I had to read this. AND I LOVED IT! Firstly: the art! I love it so much, it's so wild and full of energy that really matches the vibe of these witches. I also love how magic works in this; magic comes from something one's unnaturally good at, like music for these characters, and there are SpellSongs too, for summoning crowds and whatnot. This graphic novel is funny too! Our narrator, Alice (also the leader of Black Cat Social Club), is so sarcastic, funny and believable that I immediately fell in love with her. And of course, there's good ol' Stan and Peter, dumbass demons #1 & 2. It's so fun to read something like this that balances humor and a literal monster apocalypse and I really found it hard to put it down.

What brought my rating down from 5 stars is that it all happened too quickly. Maybe it'll work as a novel, but the climax didn't really feel like one, and there were too little details. The art is awesome by the way, kudos to the artists, and the monster apocalypse scenes were so good! I think that's it, really. I hope there would be a second comic, or maybe more under the BCSC universe. I'd read all of them.

Thank you NetGalley and Humanoids Inc. for the eARC!

3.7/5

What a fun and new concept!
The art is super colorful and I loved how the magical element was mixed with the everyday life of our characters.

I was hooked since the beginning and I almost finished it in one sitting. At the end, I think, we can also learn something from it.

As I said, it was a fun, light and magical adventure, full of friendship, music, passion and… hell

Selling your soul to the devil to make your dream career a success and it might give you musical powers to destroy monsters?!

A-MA-ZINGGG! And yes. What I get from reading this comics is this feels: amazingggg!

Story of a girl band which wasn’t doing great when the band member, Hazel, sells her soul for magical powers for more sells for their shows. The band do get the powers but they also have to face the consequences. Read this comic to know how they use this power and what their band turns out to be! You will love the ending! I do a lot!

This comic’s art sequence has been done so well. It’s been a while since I am able to read comic dialogue’s so comfortably! Well done I would say!

Thank you, Humanoids Inc, for the advance reading copy.

If you're into punk rock witches and demons called Stan and Peter you’ll love this comic.
We follow the all female band Black Cat Social Club who are trying to make it big in the LA music scene. They look incredibly cool but somehow can’t get their moment to shine. So one of them decides to sell her soul to help her bandmates out.
The visuals of this will make your jaw drop and it keeps you laughing throughout.
It’s a funny parody of the LA lifestyle but the end turned a little too crazy for me. There were no stakes and everything worked out a little too conveniently.
All in all I enjoyed the look into literal corporate hell and spending some time with insanely cool witches.

Punk rock witches from LA battle demons for their souls in this epic story of friendship and choosing to do what's right.

The magic system was different than anything I’ve read before which was refreshing! I like that magic was normalized. The demons were cool, backstabbing each other as well as twisting the deals they made with humans. I loved the art style as well.

I received an advance copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

(Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through Netgalley.)

The Black Cat Social Club is made up of three musical witches - Alice, Maggie, and Hazel - who use punk (metal?) to channel their power and cast spells. Up until now, they've been satisfied drawing crowds of a dozen or so with their summoning spells, making just enough money to stay fed and housed (if barely) and keep the music flowing.

But when Hazel, the least talented witch of the trio, sells her soul to a demon named Peter in exchange for some infernal energy to boost her spellcasting power, the BCSC grows its fan base from ten to a thousand overnight. Frontwoman Alice, the sarcastic mother hen of the group, immediately knows something is up - and, in a desperate bid to protect her girls, trades her soul for Hazel's. What the Black Cats don't know is that they're merely pawns in the demons' master plan: Project 666.3, affectionately known as THE MONSTER-POCALYPSE!, which will unleash a menagerie of new and terrifying monsters on earth.

BLACK CAT SOCIAL CLUB is a really fun and stylish read; think: Buffy meets The Ramones. The story is interesting enough, and the sarcastic, sometimes meta humor really adds that extra oomph. The world building is great, and I especially love the scenes set in Hell. (It's like if the cast of THE OFFICE - or maybe PARKS AND RECREATION? - went to, well, Hell.) The artwork, though, is next level. It's easily the best part of BCSC, just forking sensational. The Battle of the Bands, the subsequent monster-pocalypse, and BCSC's reunion in Hell are *chef's kiss* lovely: bright and colorful, with all sorts of fantastical creatures parading through the panels. Gorgeous.

Definitely well worth a read (or two or three), and hopefully it's just the first in a series? I detected a bit of a teaser in the last few panels, fingers crossed.

The Black Cat Social Club was a lot of fun! I was smiling all the way through while reading. The art was awesome and so colorful, it’s hard to not have a blast while reading this.

Note: arc provided by the publisher via netgalley in exchange for honest review

Very fun graphic fun! I loved the art style and the take on magic/ magical powers…I love a story that mix witches in a modern world! It was fun read!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!

This was a pretty fun romp of a story. It was much more comedic than I thought it would be, but it was balanced pretty well. The plot blurb describing this as Josie and the Pussycats meets Buffy was right on the money. I thought it was interesting to make Hell and how it functions more like a corporate office, than like more traditional renditions of it. This story isn't deep at all, it's a very surface-level "we saved the day with the power of friendship!" type of plot. But sometimes it's nice to kick back and read something easy and fun. I did think the magic system was very interesting! Having magic being a skill you can learn, and then those skills being connected to what we'd consider more mundane careers was interesting. The art style was good, even if the character design of the band members screams Hot Topic emos from 2006. Except for Hazel, who is dressed like a stereotypical witch with a bizarrely large witch hat. Seriously, why was her hat comically large? How is she not constantly smacking it against the top of door frames? But the colors of the art were to die for. Some of the spreads were so gorgeous.