Kind of surprising that writer James Tynion IV wins the Best Book of the Year in back to back years (his book Something is Killing the Children won in 2020), considering most of what he writes I'm not a big fan of. His Batman and Joker books in 2021 were very mediocre, yet this book, The Nice House on the Lake, felt like one of the best Twilight Zone episodes ever written. The premise is fantastic; it's the apocalypse, end of the world, and a group of friends up alive, somehow, and safe, somehow, in a nice house on a lake. It turns out that one of their friends has been an alien all along that took part in the Earth's apocalypse. So...why did he save them? Why was he pretending to be their friend all these years? What's going to happen next? The first issue was one of the best first issues of any series I've read in a very long time. Yes, the book is super dark and bleak, but Tynion has a knack for writing catchy, fun, amusing dialogue for everyone. This makes the book feel like a Richard Linklater film...in a Twilight Zone episode. The art by Alvaro Martinez helped set the mysterious mood, and the covers, especially for the first issue, truly knocked it out of the park. Just a huge triumph all around.
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