An assortment of people visit a secluded beach, only to find they cannot leave, as well as some other weirdnesses. An engrossing little tale - the mystery elements really take a back seat to the protrayal of how a disparate group of people cope in a crisis - as such it is of a similar genre to entertainments such as Lost and I'm sure many others. To be honest, I would rather the mystery had been emphasised a little more, shifting it more toward Picnic At Hanging Rock territory. As it is, I found it a touch mundane and ultimately a bit unsatisfying. Worth a reread though, and I like Peeters' art, so I'll push it up to a 4. ( )

Loved the art, loved the strange, loved the end.

When a family goes on vacation to a remote beach they realize that they are trapped with other tourists and are aging at an accelerated rate. As the older ones die off and the younger ones begin to have sex and reproduce, they are all faced with their impending mortality and the futility of life.

This is a haunting fable about mortality, aging and the brevity of life. ( )

A good, and pretty creepy, idea for a story! A group of people end up on a beach and start aging - rapidly! Children grow quickly into teens, and then adults. Older people get much older, and then...

Puberty, menopause, Alzheimer's, and death - all within the course of one day! What the??? And they have no idea why?! Add to that a story-within-a-story about a king and a half-man, and this may just have been the creepiest graphic novel I've ever read!

"It's impossible to tell you my age: it changes all the time!" - Alphonse Allais ( )

I wasn't very impressed by the M. Night Shyamalan movie, but I was intrigued that it was based on a graphic novel I hadn't read. But this makes even less sense that the movie, sexually objectifies women and children, and includes the telling of a dumb fable about a king building walls against Death. The art is pretty ugly also.

Yuck. ( )