Good Neighbours vol 1: Kin h/c back

Rue had a fairly normal life up until three weeks ago. Well her mum was a bit out-to-lunch but now she's not there at all and her cuddly professor dad is broken with grief. But Rue isn't worried, sometimes people need a break in this world of healthy adult relationships and skinny latte's. So Rue gets on with school and hangs out with her friends and unbeknownst to anyone else she looks for her mother about town, and that's when she starts to see the things that just shouldn't be. Strange people, or maybe animals, sometimes its hard to tell, roaming and cavorting and existing in coffee shops and on street corners like it's nothing. She believes she's just gone crazy but when her dad is arrested in connection with the murder of one of his students and her mother's family come to claim her at the police station, Rue realises that the world is far more askew than her imagination would ever allow. Simply fantastic.

This is the first part in a trilogy from the author of The Spiderwick Chronicles. Ted Naifeh's art constantly improves beyond my expectations with each new project and this is no exception. Like his work on HOW LOATHSOME, Ted's style has shifted to a far more realistic mode than we usually see from him and lends a far more sinister edge than I expected from a book about Faerie from Scholastic. But then these are Ted's Faerie, and they have to be the cruellest looking things you've ever seen. They are truly wild looking creatures right down to the segmented antennae; even the human-looking ones with the spiky emo hair have insanely detailed insectile wings. In fact the whole book is un-fey, not even a speck of faerie dust to be seen.