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4.29 AVERAGE
4.29 AVERAGE
Gorgeous, terrible, beautiful, gay. It’s everything I love about Tynion’s work. It’s The Woods, refined for an adult audience, with a smaller cast.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Read this in one sitting while on my trip and forgot to log it then, but oh my god this is great! The premise and setup is so engaging to the point where I was flipping back and forth between pages to catch things. Really just a perfect eerie, unsettling environment and I haven't stopped thinking about it since
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The Nice House on the Lake was a compelling and surprising read. The plot unfolded in an interesting way and I really liked the use of flashbacks. The art was also very appealing. I will say I did have to flip back a few times to keep characters straight (we were given a bunch at the beginning), but this did not hamper my enjoyment. I am keen to read the next in the series.
Really, really good. Great set up, nice creepy moments. Damn good art. Very dense dialogue and text that made the issues feel longer than they were (in a good way!)
I knocked off a star because goddamn it, this book does the thing. The thing where we've got journal pages and stuff like that, but they're written in a way that they're hard to read, physically. Notably, there's a page a person is holding, and her finger covers the center of the page. You can read around it and get the gist, but why? Why do it like this? Why not have the page flat on a table, her hand on top as she leans on the table, and her fingers could hold the page down by the margin? This isn't even a matter of realism--who holds a single sheet of paper with an index finger covering the center of the page?
Imagine you're making scissors with your index and middle finger, and then you use those finger scissors as clamps to pick up a sheet of paper. That's how this operates, and I won't condone it, damn it.
This is my number one pet peeve right now in comics, and it's my number one example of something that's fun to do, to write and draw, but sucks to read.
ALSO: when you're doing a huge block of text like this, it's almost always an exposition dump, which is no good.
Imagine you're making scissors with your index and middle finger, and then you use those finger scissors as clamps to pick up a sheet of paper. That's how this operates, and I won't condone it, damn it.
This is my number one pet peeve right now in comics, and it's my number one example of something that's fun to do, to write and draw, but sucks to read.
ALSO: when you're doing a huge block of text like this, it's almost always an exposition dump, which is no good.
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense