BOOM! Studios bring you a horror graphic novel about a social worker who is haunted by a terrifying monster that appeared in his dreams after the death of his brother in Behold Behemoth. So whatever happens if you had a terrible nightmare about the events in World War II, mix together with some monsters in a fantasy world and get a person involved with such a terrible curse to chase his own demons, you get this something out of a serial killer’s mind. There are some stories that I remember back then when people were playing DnD but somehow they were taken into a different world where you can decide your own fate to fight or die. But no, this comic is something beyond every creator’s imagination, and it was crazy to begin with. And what’s so crazy about it is that the story is so epic that one of the creators has a mind to create something beyond this world, humans, monsters, and gods, believe it or not. And then there are behemoths that are so powerful that they defeat monsters.
The comic is written by Tate Brombal and illustrated by Nick Robles. Tate is a comic book writer from Toronto, Canada, who is best known for his work as a writer on House Slaughter. Nick Robles is a freelance artist who entered the comic world in 2014 and co-created the original comic book series Euthanauts with Tini Howard at IDW. But most recently, he finished working on a successful run of The Dreaming: Waking Hours with G Willow Wilson for DC Comics.
The front cover from what I can see is very beautiful in fact because Nick’s art is actually more detailed as I look at it from the beginning. The cover shows so many warm colors over this beautiful sky landscape. What I really like about this cover is whenever you look above the sky, you’ll see a god looking at the very ground of the earth while one person is floating in the air. Speaking of, the character is actually using his power to summon a god which is a behemoth that is beyond of any imagination of a human being. I admit it’s a really amazing art that I’ve seen but I haven’t gone to the story yet. At the back of the book, there is a quote by Jeff Lemire who wrote “With Behold, Behemoth, Tate Brombal and Nick Robles deliver an absolutely stunning comic. The artwork is incredible. The characters are rich and real, and the world they have built is filled with danger, imagination, and heart.” That is true though, because whenever I started reading this, my mind was blown by the fact that the storytelling is incredible this is like playing your favorite JRPG game on a whole new level.
The story starts at a funeral for the death of a police officer who happens to be Greyson’s brother, and then suddenly he starts to get a seizure that takes you to a flashback of him and his brother in their childhood trying to make him feel better by telling Greyson’s happy thoughts, but then the next panels follow by some darkness where a mysterious figure is about to fight the behemoth, right until he was interrupted by another police officer named Kavita. The plot is that Greyson is having problems with his migraines and suddenly he having episodes about his nightmares which are very uncommon for a human to have, it’s like he’s having a sixth sense that he has experienced before as a kid. However, he’s not the only one who has that kind of problem but there’s a girl who has a strange connection with Greyson. Apparently, they’re pretty much alike, because Greyson and Wren lost their birth parents before, and somehow they experience the same bizarre taboo that Greyson had a seizure, but now both of them share their fate, summon the behemoths, hunting monsters, and such.
Sometime later in the future, Greyson took Wren on a long journey trying to survive for themselves, hunting monsters, and such, just to find a way to make things right. It’s like you’re reading a different sci-fi fantasy comic because what happened back then is that both Greyson and Wren want to get out of society because these strange thoughts that they had are putting so much danger to the people, even Kavita claimed that the behemoth got into Greyson’s head. It’s like just like you’re watching Akira where Tetsuo is having such a strange seizure, but he gained some extraordinary powers that he can rip the whole continent into one. But one thing that bothers me is that how does Kavita know all this behemoth superstition? WAS HER FAMILY IN A FUCKING CULT?? However, there is one thing that I understood about Kavita’s theory. And it’s the evolution between humans, gods, and monsters because what she said is that god created them all, but somehow he left us and somehow the gods created some extraordinary weapons such as behemoths that share two human hearts to control it. In other words, Greyson and Wren are able to control the behemoth but they also share their own fate in life and death.
I’m very intrigued by this comic because of all the horror and action behind these pages. I don’t know what more to expect from this comic because the storytelling and the art are amazing to begin with. The story is kind of depressing, dark, and horror, and I really like it. Not to mention, the art is so unreal because the character designs are very charming and intriguing and the part where Greyson grew old almost reminds me of the Klaus comics drawn by Dan Mora on Boom! Studios. What I like about the characters is how they interact very differently than anything else because the first time I see Greyson and Wren’s fearful faces is priceless. The landscapes and the backgrounds that Nick has created are really incredible, and the action scenes never dissapoints me. This comic is amazing, weird, horror, and very interesting to read. And that’s the kind of stuff that I’m here for now, if it wasn’t weird, I’d be pissed.
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