I received this as an ARC to read for free in exchange for my honest review. Thank you to NetGalley and Diamond Book Distributors for giving me access.

I am not one to DNF a book, but I couldn't continue on with this monstrosity of a graphic novel. The storyline was awful, wait no....there was NO storyline. Just a bunch of weird, messed up stories all thrown together with a farting moon man.

The only think worth while on this GN, was the art. Granted the art depicted some interesting scenes, the artist did a great job.

This is the weirdest, worst comic I've ever read. I see no positives that I could mention. The constant change in art style, although I can understand that it differentiates between different stories and time periods, I absolutely hated. I had to get used to the constant change in art and writing style. It was so hard to read, even though it was only 100 odd pages, I couldn't, for the life of me, keep reading most of the time. If I hadn't gotten it as an ARC or if it wasn't as short, I wouldn't have finished it. I didn't understand the point of the fat man, eating aliens and farting all the time. It wasn't funny and it didn't make any sense, much like the rest of the comic.

I want to take out my eyes and never be able to see again. This was bad. This was collection of really bad looking things and I can not say how much I did not like it. The scene of how a man in pillory has sex with a goat that has sex with another man, with weird guys in red suits looking, will remain in my mind (unfortunately) for a long time. That 6 pages of space-story were pure hell. If not for the last story with dinos I love, I would rate this with zero-rating.

I soo was looking forward to read this one, but the digital editions app is just not working for this one. It keeps hanging whenever I try to scroll down. I tried sooo many effing times!

Okay but the cover is awesome, and whatever I was able to read was good too, so yeah, that's all I got :(

It's always nice to find stories with so many creative minds. Between the ultra details that can can give people chills and the more cartoony stuff it's nice to see stuff that can get a laugh out of people regardless. Obviously these series will get under some people's skin when it comes to taking the subjects too seriously. But who cares, this isn't about trying to make a point, it's about telling good stories. Nobody really wants to support any of the characters just see what creators bring to the table and get people's attention. Funnies, cave people, and a pulp at the end remind people why comics are so enjoyable in the first place. It's those interpretations that get people to act up.

Dan Fogler did not exaggerate when he wrote that this might be the craziest stuff I have read all year. This collection of GN stories about Moon Lake is so NSFW, it should come in a brown paper bag with warning stickers.

Yes, I enjoyed reading it, though I had expected to see less mating and more gore.

Moon Lake is a horror comic with interesting story and artwork to match. I liked some of the stories, and I did like the artwork.

I very much like the graphic novel collection each of them has their own individual art style which is really neat the stories are gory so it is definitely a comic for adults or older teenagers but it's fun I very much enjoyed it.

I got this as an advanced reading copy from Net Galley. The fact that it was given to me free did not affect my review.

Moon Lake is like a weird baby between Twilight Zone and Castle Rock. It takes place at the fictional Moon Lake. Think Camp Crystal Lake, but weirder. This graphic novel is basically a short story collection, but with pictures! Yay for pictures! There are a total of seven stories each with their own author and illustrator and each story has a horror theme. But this isn't a graphic novel for kids. Why, you may ask? Because there are things like nudity, sex, blood, gore, murder, and even bestiality. Yeah, not for kids. So what did I think of this? Here's my review.

This was.... interesting, to say the least. I definitely have a favorite tale and I definitely had some I didn't like as well. Black Bear Blues by Stef Hutchinson Illustrated by Jim Daly and Lizzy John and Moon Wars by Blake Leibel illustrated by John Finney and Kat Rocha stood out as the better of the tales. But some of them, like Camp Sasquatch by Tim Seeley illustrated by Robbie Rodriguez and Mark Englert and Desensitized Deirdre by R. H. Stavis illustrated by Jeffrey Zornow were so overtly grotesque that it left me cold.

The stories revolved around things like a werebear, an orgy gone wrong, a girl who goes on a murderous rampage, and the whole thing is told by a man who lives on the mood, growing fat from eating moon cheese which gives him excess gas.

Some of the tales came across as so tryhard that I felt like it was entirely disingenuous. It felt like the goal of each of those writers was to, first and foremost, do something shocking. I got the feeling that they focused so much on doing something over the top that they failed to write a good story. This graphic novel had more ups and downs than a roller-coaster in an earthquake and I'm sorry to say that the lowest lows out weighed the highest highs.

I wanted to like this a lot more than I did. A horror themed graphic novel taking place in a world that allows for wonderfully unique stories to be told sounds like a great idea. Plus Dan Fogler, an actor I quite like, helped put it together and even wrote for it as well, so that's just a bonus! But in the end, Moon River's good stories couldn't keep pace with the bad ones and it left me wanting something better.

Even though I didn't love this, I'm still thankful for NetGalley for allowing me to read this and if you're interested this comes out on

This was definitely super weird and odd collection of horror stories. I just did not really enjoy any of the stories, From the description I thought it would definitely be something else than what it was, but oh well.

This was not good. I am sorry, it does not sit well with me. Jokes are tasteless and the stories are a mess.

Moon Lake is definitely what the cover and description promises. A horror comic with an interesting story and artwork to match.

Seriously? This was bad. Real bad. I gave two of the seven stories four stars but only because they were so much better than the others which mostly rated one star. The first one, Camp Sasquatch was so bad I almost quit then. I would give zero stars to the interlude story that introduces each upcoming comic. So dumb it was painful

So I was very curious by this GN since I noticed that Dan Fogler was behind it, but this just didn't work for me.

The illustrations are good, as well as the coloring, but the text bubbles are just horrible. Everything is tiny and with a bad formatting that makes it painful to read so it doesn't work for this ebook. Maybe the physical edition is better, but the ebook version is almost impossible to read IMHO.

"DNF"

This is one of those cases of judge a book by its cover. One I do quite often, but this time it blew up in my face. I expected a horror/dark theme, and what was given was a messy mesh of comic strips with fart jokes and an unusually constant amount of nipple exposure.

I tried to like this, I really did, but this Graphic Novel just isn't for me.

I feel there's likely to be an audience for this, someone who has a familiarity with the era of comic books that this is clearly a nod to might enjoy it, but without that familiarity or fondness for this style of GN it falls entirely flat.

The stories feel trashy, and while that is not necessarily a bad thing (it is intentional at least!) it is jarring. I like a gritty GN but not a mindless one.

Sadly a DNF for me.

Moon Lake Vol. 1 is an anthology horror comic curated by Dan Floger

This is an anthology of stories happening at Moon Lake, site of a lunar meteor crash ages ago, and since then a location prone to paranormal events.

The editor described this as Alfred Hitchcock Presents on Acid. Each story is indeed introduced by a plump dude but, I don’t think that show and acid is enough to describe the stories included here. You would have to add the most outrageous events of Elm St and Friday the 13th movies on top of the acid, and even then...

There is great line up of creatives in this book, and it’s amusing to see the first story being a period piece drawn in their era styles. Stories vary in humor, horror, gore, and even settings, as one happens on the moon itself. All of them are equally interesting and respecting the atmosphere of this anthology.

It might not be for everyone as it’s sometimes very outrageous, but, it might also be a riot to some. For me, it was mindless fun. You’ll be the judges.

Thanks to Heavy Metal, Diamond Books, and Netgalley for the ARC provided in exchange for this unbiased review.

OPINION: Whoa—I don’t know who this comic’s intended audience is, but it’s not me. I couldn’t bring myself to reading more than a few pages and skipping ahead through the other stories. An odd collection of lame jokes, sex, and gore—all without much substance. The stories were forgettable and the artwork was mostly amateur and juvenile. The cover illustration is the best part of the book. If this is the quality and type of content I’m to expect from Diamond, then I won’t be reading much (if any) from their catalogue.

As a side note, I don’t like pointing out negative aspects of books I read, unless I feel it’s necessary or that I have nothing else to say about the comic. In this case, both of my reasons apply.

Unfunny trash – that does at least set out to be trash, if not the unfunny part. Annoying TF link pages split up a selection of highly disposable parodies of sci-fi, horror and other genre films and magazines. I did like the Timothy Treadwell/Grizzly Man skit, but even that, at six pages, is about four pages too long, and generally nothing elsewhere had much appeal at all. Even the Red Sonja-meets-Jean M Auel-meets-Cthulhu chapter fails, principally from being so boring, even if some of the artwork is (comparatively) wonderful. A big fail.

Really bad anthology of cliched horror stories strung together throughout by cringey humour (fart jokes - SO MANY fart jokes!) and gratuitous bloodshed. It's like this is the work of kids trying to be edgy. I wanted to see what Heavy Metal magazine was like but if this is what it has to offer then it's not a publication for me. I don't know who, besides that magazine's established readership, this rubbish will appeal to but I'm not one of them! Boring, stupid comics.