This was definitely an original storyline, but there was so much of it that wasn't explained or elucidated. Frankly, I like a little more meat in my graphic novels.The other thing that bothered me... there was no clear hero or heroine. Sometimes I thought it was the son, sometimes the parents. I'm fine with more than one protagonist, but when no distinctions about character are made and when none of the backstory about a character is given, it's hard to care what happens.In the end, I felt like this story was an easy excuse to draw a bunch of weird monsters in a book, and even though my little brother would have loved to read this a few years ago, I think even he would agree that it's forgettable.