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A review by avoraciousreader68
Twisted Dark, Volume 1 by Atula Siriwardane, Jan Wijngaard, Neil Gibson, Dan West, Ant Mercer, Heru Prasetyo Djalal
4.0
*Book source ~ A review copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.
From Goodreads:
Twisted Dark forms the first book in an upcoming. This, the first volume, is formed of 12 individual and unique stories comprising of nearly 200 hundred pages. The stories vary from 10 year old girls to Columbian drug lords and everything in between but the stories are all somehow connected some obviously so and some not. It is left to the reader to find the connections, with some connections impossible to see unless you have read multiple volumes. The books contains horror, dark, at times demented, stories incorporating every human emotion, illegal activity, and brutal reality. Using various illustrators allows each story and character to develop their own form the reader is left desperate to turn the pages. The book has been embraced by the comic book world receiving critical acclaim and a cult underground following.
Twisted Dark ~ Definitions
Suicide ~ Pouring out feelings online. {4 bites}
Routine ~ A man and his son living in a cabin in the woods. {4 bites}
A Lighter Note ~ A poor man aspires to rise above his beginnings with hard work. {4 bites}
Windopayne ~ A mysterious, rich and eligible man invents a revolutionary window. {4 bites}
The Game ~ A man in a mental institution. Crazy? Is he or isn’t he? {4 bites}
Blame ~ Assigning blame. Or not. {4 bites}
Heavenly Note ~ The poor man from A Lighter Note is back. {4 bites}
Cocaína ~ One sentence, so many meanings. {5 bites}
The Pushman ~ This is an actual job?! {3 bites}
Münchausen’s Little Proxy ~ Doing something to yourself is one thing, doing it to someone else is a whole different kettle of fish. {4 bites}
The Last Laugh ~ What? WHAT?! {4 bites}
Each story has a dark twist at the end that I wasn’t expecting. Talk about a jolt straight to the system. Eeek! The illustrations fit the story matter. Done all in black & white they are dark yet that doesn’t detract from the artwork which I enjoyed. Even though horror is way down on my long list of genres I love to read, I would definitely continue with this series.
From Goodreads:
Twisted Dark forms the first book in an upcoming. This, the first volume, is formed of 12 individual and unique stories comprising of nearly 200 hundred pages. The stories vary from 10 year old girls to Columbian drug lords and everything in between but the stories are all somehow connected some obviously so and some not. It is left to the reader to find the connections, with some connections impossible to see unless you have read multiple volumes. The books contains horror, dark, at times demented, stories incorporating every human emotion, illegal activity, and brutal reality. Using various illustrators allows each story and character to develop their own form the reader is left desperate to turn the pages. The book has been embraced by the comic book world receiving critical acclaim and a cult underground following.
Twisted Dark ~ Definitions
Suicide ~ Pouring out feelings online. {4 bites}
Routine ~ A man and his son living in a cabin in the woods. {4 bites}
A Lighter Note ~ A poor man aspires to rise above his beginnings with hard work. {4 bites}
Windopayne ~ A mysterious, rich and eligible man invents a revolutionary window. {4 bites}
The Game ~ A man in a mental institution. Crazy? Is he or isn’t he? {4 bites}
Blame ~ Assigning blame. Or not. {4 bites}
Heavenly Note ~ The poor man from A Lighter Note is back. {4 bites}
Cocaína ~ One sentence, so many meanings. {5 bites}
The Pushman ~ This is an actual job?! {3 bites}
Münchausen’s Little Proxy ~ Doing something to yourself is one thing, doing it to someone else is a whole different kettle of fish. {4 bites}
The Last Laugh ~ What? WHAT?! {4 bites}
Each story has a dark twist at the end that I wasn’t expecting. Talk about a jolt straight to the system. Eeek! The illustrations fit the story matter. Done all in black & white they are dark yet that doesn’t detract from the artwork which I enjoyed. Even though horror is way down on my long list of genres I love to read, I would definitely continue with this series.