Rachel Rising

[Equinox]

Anyone heard any info on the length of the story Moore is guesstimating this beauty to be?  Based on the praise I've been reading here and my enjoyment of Echo, I picked up the first 5 issues in digital today.  Even just skimming through them, this looks to be some good stuff.

[Robert]

Anyone heard any info on the length of the story Moore is guesstimating this beauty to be?  Based on the praise I've been reading here and my enjoyment of Echo, I picked up the first 5 issues in digital today.  Even just skimming through them, this looks to be some good stuff.

Hmm, interesting question.

I haven't heard nor read anything about an issue count, so I can't say how long this story will last.  That said, I'm really enjoying this story so far.  I have no idea where it's heading but I don't mind in the least.

[legion of daves]

i think this title started with a bang, then kind of lulled for an issue or two, but issue #6 was GREAT.  i want more!

[Rustyautoparts (Russ Otto)]

Anyone heard any info on the length of the story Moore is guesstimating this beauty to be?  Based on the praise I've been reading here and my enjoyment of Echo, I picked up the first 5 issues in digital today.  Even just skimming through them, this looks to be some good stuff.

I met Terry Moore at C2E2 last year, right around when Rachel Rising was announced. I asked him the same question. He said that, unlike Echo, has doesn't have a set number of issues. It sounded like he wants to write this for the long term, but I'm guessing he'll be playing by ear. I hope he can keep it going a long time, because I love it.

[Dave K.]

You never know to expect from Mr. Moore...the latest issue (#6) has a big WTF moment and a twist that I didn't see coming for a million miles. It's only #6! 

It's only going to get more interesting from here...

[RobCVela]

I have 5 issues downloaded but have only read the first issue. I haven't had a chance where I can just sit and take it all in and with a Moore book I like to give it the attention it deserves. Might get to it this weekend but it sounds great.

[Jon_Samuelson]

I picked up the first collection of Rachel Rising this past week, and much as I've loved everything I've read by Terry Moore, even I was a bit surprised by how much I liked this.  Probably a little more, right out of the gate at least, than I liked Echo.  It's got a great, creepy, ghost-story kind of vibe, and I hope it goes on for as long as Moore wants it to.

[valance_the_hunter]

Read issue #7 tonight…man, as soon as I feel like I know what's going on, Terry thows a wrench into the works.  I have to say that in the beginning I thought, well...reading this in single issue format just didn't do justice to his storytelling element, just not enough meat on the bones in a thirty month+ time frame, sure a lot of a sauce, but just not enough masticating to trick your brain into thinking your belly is full.

That feeling has subsided a bit, it subsides (at least for me) a bit more every issue.  But that feeling I get after reading every issue, that feeling that I am along for a ride, that I don't know what is going to happen next is a feeling I miss more than I care to admit.  Like every one else on here I have seen the rabbit pulled out of the hat quite a few times, I know how to read a telegraphed punch.  But I just can't read Terry's punches, and it's a good feeling.

[valance_the_hunter]

Rachel Rising #8
Spoilers in case you haven't read it…but…

What's the symbology of the wolves supposed to mean?  Bad Rachel comes back to where one of the murderers is buried, some wolves are around, they dig up the body and start to eat it…then she tells them not too, and one dog obeys, the other doesn't.  It's a pretty bizarre scene in an issue that is littered with bizarre.

But…what did everyone else gather from this who read it?

[evaD]

Rachel Rising #8
Spoilers in case you haven't read it…but…

What's the symbology of the wolves supposed to mean?  Bad Rachel comes back to where one of the murderers is buried, some wolves are around, they dig up the body and start to eat it…then she tells them not too, and one dog obeys, the other doesn't.  It's a pretty bizarre scene in an issue that is littered with bizarre.

But…what did everyone else gather from this who read it?

I thought that was odd to, but I'm not sure it came down to one obeyed and the other didn't. I felt like she was instructing the one to drag it off and the other to stay where it was. Look at her hands in those panels. I don't remember what the quiet guy's name is, but I think he's going to play an important role in whatever is happening, too.

[Dean S.]

Rachel Rising #8
Spoilers in case you haven't read it…but…

What's the symbology of the wolves supposed to mean?  Bad Rachel comes back to where one of the murderers is buried, some wolves are around, they dig up the body and start to eat it…then she tells them not too, and one dog obeys, the other doesn't.  It's a pretty bizarre scene in an issue that is littered with bizarre.

But…what did everyone else gather from this who read it?

Haha....the fun of discussing stuff behind spoiler tags....

Isn't the dead guy the one who threw his fiancee off the top of the building?  And then he and the little girl (who had murdered her big sister with saran wrap) worked together to bury their respective bodies in the woods?  And....that's the same location that Rachel's body was dumped before she woke from the dead, right?  The little girl then smashed the man's head in with a rock and left his body laying on the ground.  I think that Bad Rachel (I think that's as good a name as any for her) was instructing the wolves to drag the man's body away from this sacred spot where women rise from the dead.  It was like cleaning up the trash.

[valance_the_hunter]

Look at her hands in those panels.

You're right.  Should have caught that, just got caught up in the peculiar scene. 

But in concerns to what Dean said, it doesn't look like they drag the body very far, and also, Jet came back without ever being buried there, I'm not arguing either cause that's pretty much what I surmised as well…but beyond that…Rachel Rising is one strange bird (the scene with Dr. Siemen and his wife propped up in the chair was pretty creepy…cool, but creepy).

[evaD]

Haha....the fun of discussing stuff behind spoiler tags....

Isn't the dead guy the one who threw his fiancee off the top of the building?  And then he and the little girl (who had murdered her big sister with saran wrap) worked together to bury their respective bodies in the woods?  And....that's the same location that Rachel's body was dumped before she woke from the dead, right?  The little girl then smashed the man's head in with a rock and left his body laying on the ground.  I think that Bad Rachel (I think that's as good a name as any for her) was instructing the wolves to drag the man's body away from this sacred spot where women rise from the dead.  It was like cleaning up the trash.

Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm not sure it's the spot that's sacred.

[Robert]

I'm not sure if the spot is sacred to everybody, but perhaps Rachel version 2.0 has plans for her "matriarch"?

Besides the wolves, I am really enjoying the use of animals in the book, especially the regurgitated snakes!  How gnarly is that?  It definitely adds some Biblical undertones to the tale. 

In the past, Terry Moore has been much more decompressed with his storytelling, but he seems to have taken a more aggressive approach with introducing plot points and characters, yet is ambiguous enough to leave the reader questioning Mr. Moore's motives, therefore, wanting to continue reading.  Maybe my favorite Moore tale to date. 

[badartdog]

In issue 7, when the bodies fall ... the 'plop' sound effect looks to me to be written in the same way as Plop - the DC humour comic from the 70s. Anyone else get that?

[Jon O]

Read issues 1-7 in the past couple days.  This story is incredible.  The story seems like it'll work great in issues, which is how I'm going to start reading it.  Terry Moore is the master of the cliffhanger, and this series especially seems to have veered dramatically at the end of each issue.  The book is creepy as hell and like everyone else has been saying, there is no telling where it's going to go next.

[Dean S.]

Read issues 1-7 in the past couple days.  This story is incredible.  The story seems like it'll work great in issues, which is how I'm going to start reading it.  Terry Moore is the master of the cliffhanger, and this series especially seems to have veered dramatically at the end of each issue.  The book is creepy as hell and like everyone else has been saying, there is no telling where it's going to go next.

I've enjoyed it fine in issues.....and I'm the first one to lose the story. 

[valance_the_hunter]

Issue 9….

Moore has been chipping away at the ice for a while now, nice to see him take a sledge hammer to it.

[Jon O]

Yeah issue 9 was one huge holy shit after another.

[Dean S.]

Issue 9….

Moore has been chipping away at the ice for a while now, nice to see him take a sledge hammer to it.

Yes....it was very good.  That series was JUST reaching the point in the story where I would have been asking, "What's the point of all this?" in a few more issues.  So, it was perfect timing by Moore to toss out a very answers.

Compare that to a series like Morning Glories.  I enjoy MG, but find it frustrating that they're NOT telling you what it's all about.