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A review by kricketa
Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery by Jeff Zornow, Jen Wang, Jason Ho, Dave Roman, Raina Telgemeier
2.0
Each chapter of this book is a different story about Agnes Quill, who has inherited the ability to communicate with ghosts. Each chapter is also illustrated by a different graphic novelist, which was a cool idea, but it didn't work for me. I felt like I was encountering different characters each time.
I really did enjoy the chapters illustrated by Dave Roman (who wrote the stories) and Raina Telgemeier, of my beloved babysitters club graphic novel revival. I couldn't follow the style of the other illustrators-- while being well suited for horror, they were way too busy, and I found it hard to tell what I was supposed to be looking at- and maybe that's what made those stories lukewarm as well. Whoever did the cover illustration- gorgeous- should have done a whole chapter.
At the end, there are field notes about Agnes and the other characters, and then excerpts from Agnes' diary, which didn't match the chronology of the stories and kind of confused me.
Another thing- at the beginning of one of the chapters (and later in the diary) Agnes has just torched a warehouse full of zombie ex-girlfriends after a wife put a curse on her cheating husband. This sounds like a great story! Why wasn't this one illustrated, instead of only being hinted at?
I really did enjoy the chapters illustrated by Dave Roman (who wrote the stories) and Raina Telgemeier, of my beloved babysitters club graphic novel revival. I couldn't follow the style of the other illustrators-- while being well suited for horror, they were way too busy, and I found it hard to tell what I was supposed to be looking at- and maybe that's what made those stories lukewarm as well. Whoever did the cover illustration- gorgeous- should have done a whole chapter.
At the end, there are field notes about Agnes and the other characters, and then excerpts from Agnes' diary, which didn't match the chronology of the stories and kind of confused me.
Another thing- at the beginning of one of the chapters (and later in the diary) Agnes has just torched a warehouse full of zombie ex-girlfriends after a wife put a curse on her cheating husband. This sounds like a great story! Why wasn't this one illustrated, instead of only being hinted at?