REVIEW: What's The Furthest Place From Here No.2

Matthew Rosenberg’s latest brainchild “What’s The Furthest Place From Here” is the type of riveting storytelling Image has been known to produce.
A group of kids with punk aesthetics in a Warrior’s type barren wasteland. “What’s The Furthest Place From Here” carries shades of both “Border Town” and “Deadly Class”; arriving just in time for Image since that latter series is on it’s final leg.

If only Rosenberg’s “Puzzlebox” at DC was as compact as this. “What’s The Furthest Place From Here” is still divided into chapters, but putting them together here works better than the way that “Puzzlebox” is released in manga-style spurts. In comics, more pages force the reader to engage more and anticipate a follow up the next month over with equal value. The less pages, the less attention paid to the book, since readers tend to think it easier to jump into the next issue since comic books are already stereotyped as short reads. The quantity matches the quality in “What’s The Furthest Place From Here”. Boss’ art is nostalgic and yellowed, almost pulpy, but identifiably eerie. Any reader would not want to end up in this dystopian world.

The characters are annoyingly lovable. Matthew Rosenberg has accomplished what Yelawolf has spent an entire professional music career doing for the Crimson Tide state, with only two issues of an indie comic book. And if that isn’t enough of a reason to pick up “What’s The Furthest Place From Here”, if boarded up Boston Market’s didn’t give you the chills before, then prepare to look at COVID closed up franchise spots a different way through Rosenberg and Co.’s lens.

All the characters are important, even as new one’s are introduced. The settings are all familiar yet twisted. With only two issues complete , “Whats The Furthest Place From Here”, the is already a triumph in the graphic genre on the way to becoming a solidfied cult-classic. Now if that isn’t enough to get this book to fly off the shelves, the added on 7″ singles packaged with the paperback should be enough of an incentive to light a fire in the memorbillia collector in all consumers to consider checking this out. A unique form of marketing for a book destined for a well-deserved mark-up.

Score : 5/5

(W) Matthew Rosenberg (A) Tyler Boss (CA) Declan Shalvey