Download La Familia De La Casa De Muñecas Presented By M.R. Carey Hardcover
Me ha encantado. Una historia tenebrosa, perfecta para HALLOWEEN, Los dibujos son impresionantes y la historia tiene la bastante profundidad como para llegar al lector y hacer que no olvide pronto esta historia.
Además, tiene un toque súper original para tratarse de una casa de muñecas maldita, One by one, go down, be weighed, Be weightless. Come up. Only one.
Wow.
I decided to read this volume of Joe Hill's HILL HOUSE COMICS line first, because I'm not at all a fan of Mike Carey's work, at least what I've read of it.
I probably should have skipped this collection entirely, but the collector's mania takes over, and I've just gotta have EVERY volume.
Joe Hill has never let me down, so I figured he had earned the right to ask me to take a chance of Mike Carey one more time.
I'm glad that I did, My reading time is limited, and comes in fits and starts which find me reading while cooking, in between chores, on my lunch break, while the kids are getting ready for bed , etc.
I'm used to having to put a book down after only reading a few pages, and I'm usually OK with that.
The two nights where I had to put THE DOLLHOUSE FAMILY down to cook dinner almost killed me, To the point where I pondered calling my wife and telling her that she had to pick up McDonald's because I just couldn't take the time to cook.
This is good stuff.
I went into this book completely cold, and that was probably the best way to read it, so I won't say much.
Carey brilliantly weaves different time periods, folkHorror, Cosmic Horror, and family drama into an absolutely perfect stew of creepiness and tension.
This was on track to get a PERFECT SCORE, until the very last page, which seemed almost like a SuperHero origin sequence.
It made sense, but didn't fit the haunted house vibe of the rest of the book, That said, my Hill House Comics experience is off to a roaring start, Bring on the next collection! Me ha encantado esta obra, Nos cuenta la historia a dos tiempos, La de Alice, una niña que recibe como regalo una casa de muñecas perteneciente a uno de sus antepasados y que, de alguna
manera, siempre ha estado vinculada al apellido familiar.
Una casa de muñecas que tiene vida y cuyos habitantes acogen a Alice como a una más de la familia, instándola a abandonar su triste vida entre humanos para unirse ellos, donde siempre habrá juegos y sonrisas.
Pero también secretos y una puerta negra que esconde algo terrorífico, Por otro lado, la historia nos traslada al siglo XIX, donde conoceremos los orígenes de la casa de muñecas, la relación con los antepasados de Alice y lo que se esconde tras la puerta negra.
Quizá no es el colmo de la originalidad, pero creo que es un cómic bastante redondo, con sus buenas dosis de intriga y muy bien estructurado que se disfruta enormemente.
Además, el dibujo, y la manera en que los colores y los trazos cambian según la época que se narre, creando un ambiente oscuro y envolvente, encaja perfectamente con la historia.
Si os gustan las historias de terror psicológico esta es una opción más que perfecta.
The start of this six issue series was a little bit of a turn off, My previous brief exposure to Carey and been meh, so why should I continue with a story about a haunted or demon infested doll house The reason is that over the course of the story Carey gives the readers reasons to become invested in Alice who goes from child to adult, and really seems to be the only who has figured out the doll house is a problem.
The house's inhabitants do not have much character, but I really became invested in Alice during the story.
I liked her as a an adult who was willing to push herself outside her comfort zone, especially when her daughter becomes a target of whatever it is inside the house avoiding to, or trying to avoid spoilers here.
I miss DC's Vertigo imprint, but there are times when I feel that the Joe Hill imprint shows promise for restoring horror to comics.
note: read as digital floppies,.Stars
The artwork in between, etc, was awesome!!
Mel I wasn't quite sure what to rate this.
I'm going to go middle ground on it,
While an interesting concept, I thought the background story of the dollhouse was a confusing mess, Who was the rocklike creature in the cave that was always dormant How exactly did creating a dollhouse out of bring this demon into existence In my head, this book would have played out a lot different, perhaps not even going into the horror genre, but maybe dealing with some childhood trauma, which certainly could have been applied here.
The beginning of the story was more compelling and I wish it would have expanded on this instead, .
The characters were sometimes very hard to tell who was who and even the older Alice and her child seemed to have personality traits that didn't fit with their earlier personality.
I did like the chapter cover art, It was very creepy and shocking and part of me wished they had done this kind of artwork through the whole story.
This had promise but it seemed to get too wrapped up in itself trying to make it original.
Sublimely creepy, as all things Dollhouse are, Oh holy shit I wasnt expecting something this good,
Whats it about
So this girl gets an old dollhouse, She unfortunately has a mother and father who constantly fight, the father is even abusive, Eventually the girl discovers she can use a spell to shrink herself into the dollhouse and her dolls are actually real people.
. . unfortunately all is more sinister than it seems and things get darker and weirder as her life and the story go on!
Why it getsstars:
The story is very good.
It is dark and strange, Theres more to this story than I expected, I also like how theres elements that could be confusing at first but then they all connect together so well in a great mix of horror and drama.
The art is pretty interesting, Admittedly its not my favorite style and it has a few iffy pages BUT it mostly works for the tone of the story, looked pretty good once I got used to it and it even has a few cool pages.
The characters are pretty interesting throughout,
This comic is very intense with its welldone pace not particularly fast but not very slow either, Its set at a pace that works best for the story,
This book is super suspenseful! Expect several twists that keep readers on the edge of their seats! It was nearly impossible to put it down after one issue due to the suspense and twists.
The horror elements are really good, It is creepy as hell, Theres very few scenes that dont have at least one creepy, well executed moment!
The ending is very well done.
I cant say much without spoilers but it wraps up a big story in a short time without feeling too rushed and it uses familiar elements in a way that works better than I would say they do in some other stories when those same elements.
Overall:
After finding Basketful of Heads only okay and HATING The Low, Low Woods I didnt expect much from this, nevermind loving it.
. . but holy shit, I did,
The story is very good, the art suits it, the pacing is perfect, the horror elements are super creepy and the ending is done so well.
This comic is basically what I want from a horror story wrapped up in a nice little package,
Fans of the horror genre should definitely visit this creepy little dollhouse!
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