A review by octavia_cade
Basilisk Vol. 1 by Cullen Bunn, Jonas Scharf

dark fast-paced

2.0

I read and reviewed the four comics collected here separately, so this is really just for my own records. The collection rating is an average of the individual ratings: issues one and four earned three stars from me, whereas both middle issues only got one star. It's a rating, I think, that's directly related to the villains. They're monstrously violent and it's shown in horrible detail and sometimes I feel, when I read comics, that the creators are trying to outdo each other in a race to portray the most sadism. It's awful to say, but as the horror went on, I was actually surprised to see no sexual assault, because usually that's the next rung on the misery ladder. That's how low my expectations have fallen for certain types of horror, which is a shame. When Basilisk focuses on the hero, and the once-villain who is clearly repentant, I'm interested. When it's gleefully cataloguing the depredations of its nasty antagonists, however, I sincerely don't give a damn. 
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