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dark, and delightful. Komiks zbudowany wokół postaci Sary Lockwood Winchester kobiety, która oszalała po śmierci męża oraz dziecka i rozbudowywała swą rezydencję, bo traktowała to jako zadośćuczynienie za całe zło, jakie wyrządziła produkowana przez jej rodzinę broń.
Plotki o klątwie ciążącej nad całym rodem Winchesterów, a także szaleństwie Sary były świetną bazą do stworzenia wizualnej perełki, w której główną rolę gra obłęd.
To jeden z tych komiksów, w których fabuła ma mniejsze znaczenie niż to jak jest opowiedziana, Jej główne założenie nie jest skomplikowane, choć jest nietypowe, a to co stanowi o sile tego wydawnictwa to kolejne znaczenia nadawane mu przez fantastyczną kreskę Iana Bertrama i jak zwykle kapitalne kolory Dave'a Stewarta.
Mam skojarzenia z rysunkami Moebiusa czy Cazy, więc francuską klasyką, co by się nawet spinało z surrealistycznym wydźwiękiem całości.
Spora niespodzianka I judged this book by its cover and did not get the story I'd expected which turned out to be a good thing.
This isn't really a horror comic, it's more a look at psychological trauma and how it manifests in the physical world.
It's actually a terribly sad story about Sarah Winchester and the reason she built the sitelinkThe Winchester Mystery House,
There's been some liberty taken with dates and I don't know if Mrs, Winchester actually watched her neighbors from a bedroom window, but the story checks out, over all, at least according to sitelinkthis and sitelinkthis source.
I found the burden of her guilt to be both fascinating and terrible, especially considering she married into the family and wasn't really aware of all the death for which her husband's family's product was responsible.
In this version, it was her grief over losing her daughter and then her husband to illnesses that caused her to believe in a blood curse on her family.
That's a lot of additional baggage to take on when you're in the midst of mourning,
Her selfflagellation is compared to that of Warren Peck who has begun to feel the weight of his own misdeeds brought about by being a sharpshooter mercenary.
He's killed some bad guys but he's killed more innocents all in the name of a paycheck and those extinguished lives have come back to haunt him.
I was also interested in the redemption message, The reader knows that killers aren't going to find absolution or even peace through housebuilding but both Sarah and her crew of men who have killed with guns believed that every blow of the hammer helped make up for every blow of a gun's hammer, that the constant racket kept malicious spirits/thoughts at bay.
The art is not pretty, but, then again, neither is the story, The drawings are all skritchy and straight lines only exist in the architecture and the gun barrels, There's a preponderance of red, all the blood and guts that have been spilled to create the need for the Winchester House,
It's a tragic tale but a decent read and so what if your eyes hurt a bit after looking at the pictures.
Based on the real house of the real Sarah WinchesterTomasi takes some liberties with the actual facts thoughHouse of penance is a weird book indeed.
Weird and fascinating, What is the plot Sarah W. is convinced her family is cursed after the death of her daughter and husband, Because of death. Death dealt with guns. Winchester guns of course. So she has this huge house built,h/day, in order to prevent ghosts from getting around, That's her penance, and her employees', all former death dealers, Enters a newcomer, no stranger to killing innocents, A strange attraction occurs between thelost souls,
And that's about it, Not bad but hothing to get too stirred up, The story's more in the characters, their sadness, obsessions and melancholy than in anything else,
Then there's the art,
Ian Bertram does an amazing job on the book, Let loose by Tomasi, he does his own narration from the script and gives way to a very european sensibility his style has a strong vibe of French author Joann Sfarr.
Some panels are silent, contemplative, Others are dark, gothic. All are impregnated with the aforementioned melancholy and obsessions, I'm certain Bertram's style is divisive and won't please everyone, This is NOT your average caped hero style, it's more indie on the sides, but from where I stand it's impressive and totally upgraded the plot.
I would be a fool if I forgot the ultratalented Dave Stewart, His extraordinary colors are as amazing as Bertram's pencils, Theput together just rock,
I'm not sure I would recommend this book to everybody, The story's weird and the art's uncommon, But if you're looking for something different just try it, An engaging read, worth your time, Writer Peter J Tomasi takes the true history of Winchester House, changes a few dates to suit the narrative, and adds enough supernatural elements to create a fine ghost/horror story with an underlying Lovecraftian threat that may or may not be real.
The story is enhanced and complimented by the fantastic art of Ian Bertram, reminiscent of Edward Gorey's creepy works, that propel the story and thoroughly visualize the Victorian atmosphere.
There was basically no plot till the very end of the book and by that point, you're almost done, I liked some of the art but a lot of it wasn't my thing, I like the idea behind it but can't say I was a big fan of this one, As a general rule, I dont seek out stories that primarily classify themselves as horror storiesnot, contrary to popular belief, because Im a giant weenie, nor because I lack a strong stomach having been on the receiving endhead to toeof postyogurtconsumption toddler puke perhaps the vilest smelling substance in the history of creation on multiple occasions and managed to hold down my lunch, I think my strength of stomach has proven itself to be sufficient to handle a little cartoon blood and guts rather, its simply the case that Im not a huge fan of creepy all the time.
Still, every once in a while, I like some creepy, and this story sounded suitably interesting beyond the creepy factor historical context, mysterious goingson, men in search of redemption to warrant checking out.
I cant say this would please hardcore horror aficionados, as the horror elements really do seem to be a secondary focus, but if youre looking for a fastmoving, engrossing, offkilter graphic novel thats got lots of lovingly illustrated tendrils of blood and viscera as an ancillary benefit of reading the tale of a possibly crazy woman trying to protect her dead husband and child from malevolent spirits whilst simultaneously creating a halfway house for reformed murderers, this is the book for you.
Ultimately, its more than the sum of its partsbroken down, Im not sure any individual element recommends it as a whole, however, its a very interesting and macabre narrative albeit not as scary as yogurtfueled toddler projectile vomit.
The darkest souls are not those which choose to exist within the hell of the abyss, but those which choose to move silently among us.
Dr. Samuel Loomis, Halloween
House of Penance is a fictional account of a nonfictional character, Sarah Winchester, and her rather colorful life as a widowed wealthy mistress who spent a fortune to construct Winchester mystery house.
In this imaginative adaptation, Peter J, Tomasi paints a world which is inches away from forces of hell, and the only thing that is stopping these nefarious gooey tentacley things from taking over our plane of existence is Sarah and her house.
Yea, I know how it sounds, But the story is written in a way that it's neither too crazy nor too logical, a little cozy purgatory where the story actually works for most of the time.
What makes it stand out is not the storytelling, but the spectacular art by Ian Bertram along with Dave Stewart's coloring.
Bertram's character sketches started out weird for me but grew on me like those tentacley things in the story, There were parts in the fourth and fifth issue that just took my breath away!
Even though I found the last act not so satisfactory as the rest of the story, this is a solid horror graphic novel that can be read under thick blankets, deep in the night.
I read it from one to three in the morning, And trust me, it was so much fun
Wikipedia page of Winchester Mystery House for those who are interested, gt sitelink wikiwand. com/en/Wincheste When I started this comic I had no idea about the supposed curse on the Winchester house or Sarah Winchester, I started looking up the legends while reading the comic and it is indeed a fascinating story the true bits as well as the lore that got added.
The story goes that Sarah Winchester lost first her daughter and then shortly later her husband, Supposedly, she believed to be cursed many say due to all the death her family's company brought to the world in form of guns/rifles and thought she could only counteract the curse or maybe even lift it by keeping on constructing the San José home.
This comic, then, tells the story of workers flooding to her one in particular to atone for their killings and other sins by building the house around the clock.
It also tells the story of what the house was like, what it was to Sarah herself, and how it claimed the lives of some of the workers.
It is a psychothriller par excellence and despite the actually hideous art I could have lived with edgy due to the topic but the art here was much worse than that, I enjoyed it quite a bit as there was a wonderful sense of foreboding as well as the unease that comes with a person and environment of obsession and madness.
There is, of course, quite a lot of social criticism in this one, too, as it deals with how people were "taken care of" if they refused to sell their land to railway companies or what was done to so many Native Americans.
To say nothing of the comment on guns themselves, However, I've decided to not read more into this as that is where madness lies besides, in that case we'd have to have one hell of a lot of knife manufacturers going mad as well.
Instead, to me, this is a creepy story of a haunted house that was built by haunted men employed by a woman going mad from grief she built that house in the course of overyears if that is not mad, I don't know what is and thus perfect for October/Halloween! The Fall of the House of Winchester.
Loosely based on stories of the actual Winchester mansion, this tale is the story of Sarah, heiress to the Winchester fortune.
She is haunted by the ghosts of everyone killed by Winchester firearms, and has teams working day and night to build her mansion.
The house is never completed, Rooms are constantly reworked. There are stairways to nowhere and doors that open onto sheer drops, As long as there is constant hammering and construction, the ghosts can't get to her, Into this mix comes Warren Peck, a sniper on the run from his own memories, They fall in love, banish the ghosts, give her money to charity, and live happily ever after with rainbows and unicorns and all manner of frolicking forest creatures.
No, actually that doesn't happen, This is a horror story
after all, . .
My favorite thing about this book is the artwork, Ian Bertram's pages are deliciously creepy, full of grotesque figures and mad, staring eyes, odd angles and gruesomeness prowling around the edges, Someone needs to set him to adapting Lovecraft, stat! As for the story, it's decent, but nothing special, Tomasi does a good riff on the actual Winchester house, with some nice tieins to events of the time period, It's all a touch predictable though, Everything resolves decently enough, and it's not actually a bad story, just, . . ordinary. I've read better I've read worse, The art rocks! The story, . . doesn't. Read at your own risk, .