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vcmwI finished the first volume of Monstress (Marjorie Liu writer / Sana Takeda artist).
It is gorgeous, pitch-perfect horror. It was a thoughtful, elegantly composed story full of consequences and survivors. Possibly, depending on how much you look at structure vs tropes, it could be classed as dark fantasy? I think the overall structure of the narrative leans more towards fantasy, perhaps, while the elements and tropes pull more from horror?
Anyway, I finished the volume in one gulp and then had about two nights of nightmares. I'm still not sure if I'll keep reading because it was haunting and evocative and lyrical and also just full of dread. The art is luminous and elegant and renders the horrific and violent events clearly.
If you have more of a tolerance for horror than I do, the story has complicated mythology and family history and consequences piled on consequences, and people making and living with very difficult choices indeed. And everything in it looks washed in moonlight except for the parts that are washed in blood.
It is gorgeous, pitch-perfect horror. It was a thoughtful, elegantly composed story full of consequences and survivors. Possibly, depending on how much you look at structure vs tropes, it could be classed as dark fantasy? I think the overall structure of the narrative leans more towards fantasy, perhaps, while the elements and tropes pull more from horror?
Anyway, I finished the volume in one gulp and then had about two nights of nightmares. I'm still not sure if I'll keep reading because it was haunting and evocative and lyrical and also just full of dread. The art is luminous and elegant and renders the horrific and violent events clearly.
If you have more of a tolerance for horror than I do, the story has complicated mythology and family history and consequences piled on consequences, and people making and living with very difficult choices indeed. And everything in it looks washed in moonlight except for the parts that are washed in blood.
