Review

Ghostopolis

written and illustrated by Doug TenNapel

Immediately, it’s evident that Ghostopolis is something special. It begins as a simple tale of a heartbroken mother desperately trying to find a cure for her terminally ill son. From there, it jumps into adventure territory when that son—named Garth Hale—gets inadvertently pulled into the ghost world while still very much alive. There, he meets a host of good and bad creatures, including the estranged grandfather he never knew, who is looking for forgiveness in the afterlife for abandoning his daughter.

Speaking of his daughter—Garth’s mom—she’s frantic to recover he