Armed with a camera, she rides her motorcycle into the Spill Zone and captures images of the horrors, and occasional beauties, that now inhabit the town. This is where the book’s main character, Addie, comes in. The town is cut off and abandoned, stuck within a perimeter set up by the army. The town’s former residents float around like they are suspended on invisible meathooks and strange, possessed creatures roam the streets. The exact ins and outs of this accident are unknown, but something was spilled and horrors have been unleashed. The story of the Spill Zone centers on two orphans living outside of a town that suffered a catastrophic event. They constantly leave you wanting more in the best possible way. A book like this could easily get bogged down trying to explain too many things, trying to make sense of the horrors, but Westerfeld and Puvilland only give you enough to information to turn the page. The book moves fast and lets you fill in the details instead of wallowing in them. The strength of Spill Zone, the new graphic novel by Scott Westerfeld and Alex Puvilland, is in what it doesn’t tell you.
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