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A review by tylertylertyler
Severed by Scott Tuft, Scott Snyder, Attila Futaki
2.0
I received a free ebook copy of this from NetGalley.
All in all, this is a pretty solid horror story but, frankly, I was a little disappointed. I've greatly enjoyed Snyder's work before and so I think I was looking for something a little more than 'solid.' Of course, this doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it: it was a decent enough story, with some genuinely creepy going-ons, and there were a few instances in the story that I genuinely thought were good additions to the mood. It just didn't impress me, exactly; it was worth a read but I'm not sure how much I'd care about re-reading, even with the speed you can breeze through it.
The art does deserve a lot of credit though. It was impressive, and it fit the mood and grime of the story in a really wonderful way. The artist did an especially good job juxtaposing the book endings of the first and last few pages with the much more sordid and despairing time period of the heart of the comic.
All in all, this is a pretty solid horror story but, frankly, I was a little disappointed. I've greatly enjoyed Snyder's work before and so I think I was looking for something a little more than 'solid.' Of course, this doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it: it was a decent enough story, with some genuinely creepy going-ons, and there were a few instances in the story that I genuinely thought were good additions to the mood. It just didn't impress me, exactly; it was worth a read but I'm not sure how much I'd care about re-reading, even with the speed you can breeze through it.
The art does deserve a lot of credit though. It was impressive, and it fit the mood and grime of the story in a really wonderful way. The artist did an especially good job juxtaposing the book endings of the first and last few pages with the much more sordid and despairing time period of the heart of the comic.