We Found A Monster (Family Comic Friday)

Casey Clive is the weird kid in school. He's obsessed with horror and sci-fi. He's got premature gray hair. And he's an expert in monsters. That last one might be because Casey's house is secretly home to about a dozen monsters ranging from a zombie to a human-bat hybrid to a sea creature that lives in the Clive family toilet.

When it comes to friends at school, Casey doesn't have any. But that all changes when new girl, Zandra, asks him to help her with a special project: caring for a sick monster she found!

As Casey helps nurse the fluffy pink monster to health, strange things star to happen. A menacing evil drone keeps chasing him throughout his hometown. The robot claims that he's on the lookout for someone who escaped him. Could it be the cotton candied-coated beastie hiding in Casey's attic?

We Found A Monster is written and illustrated by Kirk Scroggs (Swamp Kid). Just like with Scroggs first book, it's done like a journal. Casey is very adept at recording his observations and interactions with his monsters. And there's tons of doodles and mini comics. Throughout the book, Casey's journal is interspersed with segments of sequential art that moves the plot forward. This young adult graphic novel is just jammed pack with fun!

For the past couple of year's DC has been upping it's all-ages game with a series of graphic novels for ages 6 and up. It started with the short-lived DC Zoom imprint and has now just become a regular thing at the House of Heroes. Every title DC's been putting out has starred its heavy hitters from Batman to Zatanna. But when it comes to We Found a Monster, I couldn't figure out just what this has to do with any of the this publishers creations. 

Casey Clive is not a DC Comics character. Unless he's a very minor addition that even the DC Wiki page doesn't relevant. But as you dig into the book, you meet a few minor characters that are a part of the adult version of the DCU. For example, there's the human-bat hybrid. It's She-Bat from the Batman Family of villains. Then there's- oh I just don't want to spoil it. But it's definitely a DC book, this one is.

We Found A Monster seems set up in order for a sequel. I think it would be neat if the next book paired Casey Clive with Swamp Kid. There's a mini-comic at the end the book that stars Swamp Kid and his crew. So maybe my idea isn't out of the realm of possibility.

I had a lot of fun reading We Found A Monster. It was planted firmly in the DC Comics mythos of horror. It just took a while to find the pathway to it. 

Worth Consuming!

Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.