Name: War and Peas: Comics to Die For
ISBN: 9781524854072

War and Peas

From the creators of the hugely popular Instagram comic War and Peas, this offbeat four-panel comic features a dark, fairy-tale aesthetic and a twist ending each time. War and Peas: Comics To Die For combines twisted humour with a beloved cast of characters including the grim reaper (seen here as an unintentionally lethal man of leisure), a robot in hopelessly in love with his scientist creator, and a promiscuous yet self-assured witch. Unlike most webcomic collections, this one tells a story using existing and never-before-seen comics to chronicle the lives of several different characters and their follies during life, death, and their awkward and glorious reunions in the afterlife.

War and Peas: Comics to Die For

Ken Yuen

Yeah this comic strip is a lot of fun. If you're not sure, just go read the webcomic then check out the book if you're hooked.

Lauren Sullivan

I don’t follow the webcomic War and Peas, though I have seen a few of their comics before on social media, and I picked up this comics collection based on that small sample.



Each page is separate 4 panel comic with a title, usually a description of the comic or a continuation of the punchline. The art is simple and quirky but it works well with the humor. Some of the comics can get a bit raunchy, but for the most part it’s absurd and macabre nerdiness, usually with a humorous twist. In other words, it’s pretty classic web comic humor.



There’s a set of reoccurring characters, like a robot, a ghost boy, a self-described slutty witch (and her vampire boyfriend), and the grim reaper, which build on previous gags, but otherwise there’s no overarching theme to the collection. Sometimes the characters cross paths, with the witch and the grim reaper as my favorite. The simplistic style means that the book is a quick read, though I think it also has decent rereadability.



Some of the comics worked really well for me (I loved the printer overlords), while some felt like they were trying too hard to be edgy. I think it’s the nature of this style of humor that each particular joke either works very well or not at all for a person, which can make the collection as a whole feel uneven.

Overall, though, any collection that has Death rolling off on a skateboard after breaking up with someone gets a thumbs-up from me!

I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Gabriel Noel 

ARC given by NetGalley for Honest Review

War and Peas is an enjoyable "web to page" graphic novel. Comics range from laugh out loud goofy jokes to strange and weird satire. On many occasions I usually find myself bored with graphic novels that come from web comics, mostly for the fact that I've seen the strips online beforehand, but this collection had many I hadn't seen and I really enjoyed the laughs they gave me. Some of the more "satirical" or "weird" comics missed the mark or punch-line perhaps but over-all its a perfectly good read. 

My top three favorite strips were "Pizza Surprise", "A.C.A.B", and "Beautiful Sadness".

Domizia Margagnoni

I really enjoyed this comic strips!! A little controversial, dirty and always very funny!!

Solange Bello

I was provided and ARC of this Via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review 

Honestly this was absolutely freaking hilarious lol The art is super cute and if you love dry humor
this is 100% for you 

I definitely want to own this book and go through it whenever I'm having a bad day lol

I won't give anything away (although im not sure if spoilers for something like this actually matters?)
but a certain Witch is my favorite character

Jeremy Cote

Note: I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley.

I thought this was a great collection of comics. They were all funny, and I found the writing to be spot on. I kind of wished there were some essays in which the authors talk about the themes behind some of these topics (like the other comic books that have recently been released), but overall, I was quite happy with the book.

War and Peas: Comics to Die For

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