Third Shift Society Volume One: A WEBTOON Unscrolled Graphic Novel

by Meredith Moriarty

Overview

Life’s funny. One minute you're jobless, deep in debt and on the verge of eviction; the next you’re in a fight with a monster and getting a job working for a Paranormal Detective with the head of a Jack-o-Lantern. It’s an age-old story.

In one afternoon, Ellie discovers that monsters are real, she has latent psychic powers, and a well dressed man with a pumpkin for a head wants her to be his partner. It’s a lot to take in. Now the clumsy but determined Ellie and her Pumpkin-headed boss Ichabod have to team up and fight the things that go bump in the night.

Before she can say “boo,” Ellie finds herself tangled up in a magical world where monsters are real, demons tend bar, and psychic conversations take place in a super unsettling mystical void. And there are even more dangerous forces at work, just out of sight.

This volume collects Season 1 of the bewitching WEBTOON comic Third Shift Society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781998854295
Publisher:	Wattpad Webtoon Studios, Inc.
Publication date:	03/05/2024
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Meredith Moriarty is an Eisner-nominated artist and writer from Philadelphia. When she’s not drawing, she enjoys playing video games, baking desserts, and hanging out with her cats and dogs.

Editorial Reviews

03/11/2024

Moriarty collects her Eisner-nominated supernatural-mystery webtoon into an irreverent if often derivative print debut. Out strolling and texting one day, unemployed 20-something Ellie McGuinness stumbles on a demon battle (“That guy’s about to get turbo murdered!”) and rescues Ichabod—a “paranormal detective” with a jack-o’-lantern for a head. With her mundane existence forever altered by the discovery that she has latent magical abilities (blue flames shoot from her hand when she steps between Ichabod and a wolflike monster with a skull head), Ellie agrees to train her powers as Ichabod’s assistant and accompanies him on spooky gig work—a little bit Ghostbusters, a little bit Sherlock. She’s thrust into an underworld populated by flirtatious demons, vengeful spirits, “mystery voids,” cursed library books, and a host of other quirky softcore-horror delights. Moriarty’s color cues, angular trick shots, and other cinematic framing enhance the caper’s more dynamic sequences. Peppered with jokes and sardonic literary references (there’s a humanoid beetle named Greg Samson, and Alice­­­­­—of Wonderland—shows up in a void-dimension), the script tends to rush characterizations and leans heavily on convenient contrivances. Still, it’s an easily digestible and affectionately mixed blend of genre tropes. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

"[S]atisfies and tantalizes its audience all at once." —Foreword

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