The End of the Fucking World is a graphic novel by Charles Forsman that, on the surface, chronicles a young sociopath boy and his girlfriend as they embark on a small road trip to escape the mediocrity of their lives at home.  I decided to take a chance and buy the hardcover of this because I found out it was going to be a British TV show on Netflix.  I am always "that guy" who has to read something before watching it (mainly so I can be a judgy bloke and feel all worldly and pretentious because I read).

The story starts with James sort of coming into the world and nothing goes right for him (and he's also quite a downer on himself).  After some time passes, he meets innately co-dependent Alyssa, they start dating, she wants him, he pretends to love her, he eats her out, and then the journey begins.  Each "chapter" sort of switches back and forth from their different points of view, and we are able to see the typical teenage experience through two sets of eyes.

James does a lot of things that make your inner Dahlmer or Bundy senses start to tingle, and you are intrigued to see just how far he will go. And he goes far, let me tell you.  It seems that the end of each "chapter" left me a little more gaspy than the previous one!  His extremely violent fantasies becomes realities and poor Alyssa is just ignorant, naive, and clearly in love.  She plays that girl who loves a boy who doesn't know how to love anyone or anything.

The story read quickly as it has basic dialogue, maybe six to nine stills to a page, and the illustrations are black and white and extremely simplistic and minimalistic so there is not a lot of fluff to distract you.  Forsman does a great job pairing the dialogue with the simplistic drawings to evoke all those teenage feelings of dark anger and deep frustration.  TEOTFW takes us all to a darker part of humanity and it kinda made me wanna stay there!

I am gonna give it 4 out of 5 stars and I am READY to binge the hell out of this on Netflix now!