I rarely, I mean rarely rate something one star. But this was just awful. It was crude, obscene, violent just to be violent, and I’m a bit irritated that it compares itself to Tales from the Crypt and other amazing stories. Those stories all had something in common that they had a lesson to learn, even when the evildoers didn’t get “punished” for their actions. But there didn’t seem to be any point to this.

This just seemed like an excuse to throw together a bunch of gross stories under the same cover. The only story that was worthwhile was the last one, but by that point, I was already completely over the whole disgusting thing. I’m talking, intimate scenes with animals, this dude eating aliens, and all kinds of stuff that I don’t really want to get into. I can take a good amount of violence and grossness, but hot dang, this was just uggghhhh!!!!

Sometimes the art can save even a bad story from being a one star read, but this isn’t one of them!! I was sorely disappointed in most of the art save for a few parts, including the last story, however, as I mentioned, I was so disgusted with the rest of it that the one story didn’t save the book. So I much as I hate to do this, it’s a one star read. I cannot recommend this and in fact recommend you stay away.

Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion.

I had no idea what I was getting myself into with this book, but that didn't stop me. Full of hilarious adult humour, nudity, gore, and scifi goodness, Once I picked it up I couldn't put it down, and I wouldn't have wanted it any other way. If you're looking for any of that, then you'll want to grab a copy for yourself.

Beginning with an eccentric intro about how Moon Lake came to being, The Earth being a lonely single mother to her bastard son, The Moon, and his undoing because of being used as a blast shield for years and years from space rocks. How he eventually took his anger out on the planet itself, casting down a chunk of himself and creating what is known today as Moon Lake, an irradiated graveyard of a lake where really weird stuff happens. And that's just the beginning.

From a sex camp full of people who turn into monkeys, to epic space battles on the moon against aliens, even to a cheerleader that loses her mind after the worst day possible and goes on a killing spree. This book has it all. And it does it all and still is able to stay really funny in the process. Though, it does go up and down. The stories have their own art styles that fit perfectly, and make each story beautifully horrific in their own special ways. I couldn't ask for anything more from this book, and I'm glad that I got the chance to check it out.

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'Moon Lake' by Dan Fogler with a variety of artists is a comic anthology series with stories about a strange place on our planet.

Our host is a robust man who lives on the moon and enjoys dining on the gray aliens that seem to be surrounding him endlessly. The stories are all only linked by geography, I think. One is crazed cheerleader on a gory murder spree after getting a day full of bad news. There are zombie dinosaurs in another story.

It's supposed to be gory and funny, and while it's gory enough, I didn't like the humor at all. It all feels like trying to hard. The art styles vary quite a bit, and I liked most of it, but this felt like a waste of time.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Heavy Metal, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

I hated everything about this comic. I really tried to read past through the horrible and dry humour and the heavy sexual content but I really didn't want to torture myself and waste my time reading this. Definitely a DNF and will never touch it again.

I skimmed through the whole thing and I see that it changes artstyle often (I'm not sure why though) but it was just full of nude women that made me even more not want to read any more of this.

Thank you Netgalley for providing me with the digital copy for an honest review.

Some truly fantastic art, mired with bad writing and duff jokes. The book tries to marry horror with an 80s sense of humour, that feels outdated and naff.

I thought people were being extra harsh about this anthology because it was written by a celebrity, but this is the literal worst graphic novel I've ever read. Possibly the worst published work in general. The writing was fucking terrible, unnecessarily crude and completely plotless, and I can't imagine that even a 12 year old boy would enjoy the stupid fart and sex jokes that were the entirety of this book.

*This is normally the part where I thank NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced reader copy, but it's been three weeks since I forced myself through this and I still feel victimized by this atrocity, so I can't make myself say thank you haha

It doesnt support or open after I download the pdf version of it. It's also not showing in my shelf in netgalley and I cant open it to read Please look into the issue and if you can send me the pdf in my mail ID- taniagungunsarkar@gmail.com I cant read the book from here. Please look into the issue

I would love to say I really enjoyed this book but sadly I could not get it to download so I will never know, therefore looking at other reviews I will give the same

Moon Lake is a conglomerate of campy, horror, 80's themed stories. The artwork is well done and the stories themselves are creative. However, this was not for me. I found some of the font annoying to read, the stories were a bit too oversexualized for me, and there is an element of grossness that I didn't like. That being said I can definitely see that this would have an audience with others, just not me.

This is a horror anthology centering around a cursed area called Moon Lake.

With a Crypt Creeper like narrator called “Man in the Moon,” these stories are chock full of gore but not so much with the horror. I almost feel bad comparing it to Takes from the Crypt because while the campy nostalgia of that show is a reflection of it’s time and kinda predictable in a way, this collection is trying WAY too hard. It keeps reaching to appeal to the ‘farts are funny’ crowd and as that is not me, I was mostly bored and just flipping through the pages. I can’t give this a 1 out of 5 because clear effort went into the art. I’ll be generous and give this a 2 out of 5 because the last story in the collection saved me from complete boredom.

Tries to straddle the line between horror and humor, but the horror is pretty tame (or is just graphic violence without any chills) and the humor is pretty juvenile. I like that each story had a different artist and style, and I like the attempts to play with tropes, but when you have a short volume and a lot of stories there's not a lot of room, so most of the stories seem cramped or superficial. And the frame story....it's not really transgressive. It's just dumb and crude.

I just wanted to thank Netgalley and Dan Fogler for letting me read this graphic novel and reviewing it!

I just wanted to start off by saying I am a Horror/ Thriller lover, and I enjoy a really good scare! I also enjoy a graphic novel because of the art and the ideas behind it. I will say is that this graphic novel kind of fell short for me honestly. I was never pushed over in my seat for the scare factor and I was never in it for the jokes. I am down for a super cheesy joke and sometime immature. But these were meh! All in all it is not a horrible novel but there could be room for improvement and more!

Super fun. Nicely put together and a little grotesque in places. Moon Lake is a fun, old school, grindhouse style comic. Gory, chilling and hilarious.

Maybe, Dan Fogler's lunacy is finally rubbing off on me because I find this fascinating and funny. At first, I was struggling to make sense of it all. Annoying, actually! But then Desensitized Deirdre happened and it's all hello dark humor, satire and movie references. As I've said before, it will all come together in the end.

Meanwhile, lemme just flex this for your guidance:
"The Moon Lake universe reflects where we are as a species today and our relationship with nature. We're at our own crossroads where everywhere you look it seems as though evil is winning."

P.S.: I seriously wonder if watching those weird shows as a kid contributed to my appreciation of this comics. I can't wait for the succeeding issues!

Many thanks to NetGalley and Diamond Book Distributors for providing this ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.

Horror is meant to push you out of your comfort zone. It's meant to be creepy and unsettling and often toes the line between exhilaration and plain fear. Sometimes horror skirts too close to your own fears; I will never forget the scene in The Basement where Cayleb Long's Craig is forced to swallow his own teeth.

So it's not the discomfort and sheer inappropriateness of Dan Fogler's Moon Lake that offended me, it just wasn't very good. It reminded me of a subpar Mad magazine issue but whereas I subscribed to Mad for many years and am a big fan of Dan Fogler's, this just isn't very good.

I get the feeling a lot of people are buoyed by Dan's increasing popularity (or have been drinking the same Kool Aid as him) but this should not be receiving a reissue with a brand new cover.

I give it two out of five stars because some of the artwork is good but if you're a fan of Dan-and-horror, I'd recommend just viewing his The Walking Dead episodes again.

Unable to download before archived as my tablet was damaged and I had been unable to afford a new one until recently. Apologies.

I really don’t like to give books bad reviews.... but this one wasn’t for me. The jokes were gross and unfunny, it used the R slur, which I also didn’t like, the language was too foul. Didn’t finish.

Moon lake is a graphic novel that tell us some stories about strange things that happened in a town with the name of "Moon Lake" and it was all narrated by a man who lived in the moon with some extraterrestrial life.

The graphic part was really cool, it wasn't a problem, and on every story were different.

The plot was interesting but some of the stories I didn't like and the narrator was so awful I didn't like him.

I couldn't find a way to enjoy some of the stories that were so hard to get, like the first one of the camp on Moon lake. It didn't make any sense how to put the first part of the story with the second and they barely explained us what was happening, instead of that they wanted to show us the sexual escene between two of the characters than explain why or what was happening, and that was only for the first story.
so I'll just give it a poor 2 of 5 stars.


thanks Netgalley for this ARC,

I really did not like this graphic novel as much as I thought I would.

Thank you Netgalley for the ARC.

This graphic novel is a collection of stories all based around the evil originating at Moon Lake. As with any collection, there are hits and misses, but I’m sad to say there are more misses than hits here. Tied together by our host, a very obese and flatulent Man in the Moon with an affinity for Moon Cheese. If violence and nudity offend your delicate nature, this book is certainly not for you. One big gripe is that the cover artwork really drew me in, but inside none of the artwork really matched up to the feel of the cover.

The introduction and interstitials are bright and funny, though by the end they get rather repetitive. There are a couple pages of classic style advertisements tossed in which are creative and funny. The highlight of the stories to me was Desensitized Deirdre, with a nice balance of the cutesy and the gross, with a rather decent story to tell. Camp Sasquatch had a classic comic style of art and a bit of an outlandish but fun story, with a camp full of horny counselors reminiscent of films from the 1980's. I didn’t love the art in Cave Girl, as it just wasn’t the usual bright & cartoony style I prefer, but the story brought the feeling of ancient lore to the collection. Miserable Me is the backstory of the Man in the Moon, our host/narrator, with the fun art, but again, since we get him here and between each story, he got to be a bit much.

The other stories were pretty light on plot. Black bear Blues was drawn well, but almost too short to get anywhere, which is the similar fate of Moon Wars. The art here was much more photo-realistic, almost like they added an effect to photos or film shots to create the story. His Final Escape felt very Victorian, the type of story you’d read in a penny pamphlet with art that would be right at home in some pastoral novel from 1870. It was an average story all around.

My least favorite part was the ending, The Moon Lake Scrolls. Presented like the notebook of some historian researching Moon Lake’s horrific history, it was too wordy for this outlet, especially with the overwhelming amount of boobs & violence we had up to this point. It is presented as an issue of National Geographic and it just felt out of place compared to the rest of the book. If more books in the series are released, I would be interested in checking them out to see how they compare, but I'd probably borrow it from a library.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy to review. This is my honest review of the book.
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