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The Nye Incidents
Lynn Devlin is a medical examiner who thinks she has seen everything Nye County has to throw at her. She copes with methodical, rational logic. But when a grotesque murder of a supposed alien abductee occurs that cannot be solved with her scalpel and microscope, Lynn finds her detachment is shattered, and her dreams haunted by large, dark, oval-shaped eyes. Now, only one thing is There's a killer loose in the alien abductee community... human or otherwise!
- GenresGraphic NovelsComics
152 pages, Paperback
First published May 14, 2008
About the author
Whitley Strieber
137 books1,306 followersAmerican writer best known for his novels The Wolfen,The Hunger and Warday and for Communion, a non-fiction description of his experiences with apparent alien contact. He has recently made significant advances in understanding this phenomenon, and has published his new discoveries in Solving the Communion Enigma.
Strieber also co-authored The Coming Global Superstorm with Art Bell, which inspired the blockbuster film about sudden climate change, The Day After Tomorrow.
His book The Afterlife Revolution written with his deceased wife Anne, is a record of what is considered to be one of the most powerful instances of afterlife communication ever recorded.
Strieber also co-authored The Coming Global Superstorm with Art Bell, which inspired the blockbuster film about sudden climate change, The Day After Tomorrow.
His book The Afterlife Revolution written with his deceased wife Anne, is a record of what is considered to be one of the most powerful instances of afterlife communication ever recorded.
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May 22, 2020
My favourite graphic novel is From Hell. There are other graphic novels considered superior to From Hell- but, at least for me it represents the pinnacle of the genre. Superficially From Hell and The Nye Incidents have some commonality. They are both ultimately police procedurals, there’s murder, mutilation, female main characters, esoteric designs, and secret societies told in black and white.
I first read From Hell ten years ago and I still periodically think on what a brilliant work of fiction it is. Massive and minute all at once the goal was to “solve” the Victorian Era itself- which I think it did- if only I were smart enough to read the answer Moore and Campbell discovered.
I finished The Nye Incidents in an hour’s progression. Alas.
I’ve been thinking over it since I finished. Not, as with From Hell but, like how you’ll refight an afternoon’s argument in your head with snappier comebacks. Reading The Nye Incidents was no great pleasure to me and I feel way better complaining about it than I ever did reading it.
Eddie Campbell’s illustrations from From Hell (also black and white) were absolutely manic. They were disordered, smudgy, harsh, bleak not just in the absence of colour but what they depicted. Coupled with Alan Moore’s prose and direction; text and drawings worked skillfully together. But, they also work alone. Text sometimes appears without drawing and drawing without text to convey the bleakness of working class London in a way that’s sensitive and human while the privileged is shown in its true ugliness.
In comparison, the illustrations for the Nye Incidents I can only describe as tired. Line meets line, either graphic or mundane every scene feels as original and inventive as a connect-the-dots picture. What variation there is only is used to blur plot rather than advance it. Text and direction meanwhile are simply hackneyed. Not to spoil too much but there’s a scene where a minor character literally finds a secret file in an unlocked file cabinet at his office marked “confidential”! The ending is a mere cop-out but doesn’t even succeed in tying up the slim plot to any real satisfaction. In this, it fails, yet again, miserably compared to From Hell not to mention it fails even on its own storytelling abilities.
Outside of Whitley Streiber’s Majestic I’ve been thoroughly unimpressed by his ability as a storyteller and this is no exception.
I first read From Hell ten years ago and I still periodically think on what a brilliant work of fiction it is. Massive and minute all at once the goal was to “solve” the Victorian Era itself- which I think it did- if only I were smart enough to read the answer Moore and Campbell discovered.
I finished The Nye Incidents in an hour’s progression. Alas.
I’ve been thinking over it since I finished. Not, as with From Hell but, like how you’ll refight an afternoon’s argument in your head with snappier comebacks. Reading The Nye Incidents was no great pleasure to me and I feel way better complaining about it than I ever did reading it.
Eddie Campbell’s illustrations from From Hell (also black and white) were absolutely manic. They were disordered, smudgy, harsh, bleak not just in the absence of colour but what they depicted. Coupled with Alan Moore’s prose and direction; text and drawings worked skillfully together. But, they also work alone. Text sometimes appears without drawing and drawing without text to convey the bleakness of working class London in a way that’s sensitive and human while the privileged is shown in its true ugliness.
In comparison, the illustrations for the Nye Incidents I can only describe as tired. Line meets line, either graphic or mundane every scene feels as original and inventive as a connect-the-dots picture. What variation there is only is used to blur plot rather than advance it. Text and direction meanwhile are simply hackneyed. Not to spoil too much but there’s a scene where a minor character literally finds a secret file in an unlocked file cabinet at his office marked “confidential”! The ending is a mere cop-out but doesn’t even succeed in tying up the slim plot to any real satisfaction. In this, it fails, yet again, miserably compared to From Hell not to mention it fails even on its own storytelling abilities.
Outside of Whitley Streiber’s Majestic I’ve been thoroughly unimpressed by his ability as a storyteller and this is no exception.
July 27, 2008
Eh, interesting, but short.
January 7, 2010
Almost as good as an X-file even without a conclusion!!
January 13, 2016
This graphic novel gave me nightmares.
September 2, 2014
A cliched alien story, but was still entertaining. The pace was too fast, however, and didn't allow for the reader to get stuck in. Also, there was a needless sex scene.
December 12, 2014
Could have been super scary and chilling but got stuck on the boobs. I'm not a prude by any means, but damn, so many boobs. Two for effort.
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