I read and reviewed The Wake Part One (collecting #1-5) in November 2013 and read Part Two (collecting #6-10) recently so I’ve compiled both reviews into this one for the complete 10-issue collected edition. Why the fuck were the Mers suddenly buddy-buddy with Leeward (and I'm assuming everyone else) at the end? I don't understand why the MerWhatevers would keep Archer and those other people alive? Were the MerThings our alien off-shoot cousins? Where did Archer go on the ship? Why did our original ancestors feel guilty this time around? The eye-gouging thing was retarded. Mass confusion set in with the rest of the 'ending', and I felt lost and let down. I thought it was kind of cool that humans were the aliens, but Snyder lost me after that revelation. If you've read this, then you might understand why I think the ending jumped the shark just a little bit. The whole book hinges on keeping you in suspense as to what the hell these things are, and why they're trying to eat us.

If you haven't read this, but plan to? Please don't click the spoiler tag.

Oddly enough, it seems like this voice on the airwaves is coming from Archer.Īlright. The government (such as it is) is after her, and she has to band together with pirates to find this Lost Message. Leeward is searching for this Lost Voice on the airwaves that she thinks holds the key to stopping the mer. The creatures have taken over the world (sort of) by causing tsunamis that flooded the shores, and driven the puny humans into their mouths.

And it looks like once they're done eating Archer & Co., they're headed toward the shoreline.įast forward a couple of hundred years, and now we're following the story of Leeward, a young lady with a dolphin who hunts the mermaids.and sells their eyeballs. Lots and lots of friends that are tearing the underwater rig apart. There's a folklore expert, a deep-sea hunter, and another scientist who happens to be the guy who got her thrown off of her last project.Īnyway, it soon becomes apparent that this creature is some sort of a chompy-mermaid with a hallucinogenic venom that squirts out of its eyes. They have the 'animal' hidden away in an illegal deep-sea drilling rig, and they need Archer to take a peek at it.Īrcher isn't the only one who's been called into check this sucker out. She gets an offer she can't refuse from a government agent ish guy, to help them with something they've discovered in the ocean that is making a whale-like call. So, it starts off in present day (or the past, depending on how you look at it) with a cetologist whale/dolphin/porpoise expert named Lee Archer. I'm not even sure what the hell happened. It kind of ran off the rails toward the finish line, and (in my opinion) never really recovered the momentum it had during the first half.

I was pretty invested in the story for the majority of this book.

The wake by scott snyder