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Welcome To Hoxford (2009)

by Ben Templesmith(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

160010374X (ISBN13: 9781600103742)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

IDW Publishing

review 1: "Rehabilitation" is not a big buzzword at the Hoxford institution. Hoxford is more of a storage facility, a privately contracted warehouse where the criminal justice system can conveniently ship and forget about its "special needs" inmates: pedophiles, rapists, necrophiliacs, cannibals. And the latest addition, Raymond Delgado, a psycho killer who has delusions of godlike grandeur and this compulsion to bite. Only problem is the guards are likely to bite back. I don't want to give any surprises away about the staff of Hoxford, so I'll just say it'll be a full moon in a couple days. Hacks indeed. Here's a graphic novel absolutely crying out to be made into a summer movie. Actually, I think it's already been a movie, only David Fincher used aliens instead of werewolves. "Wel... morecome to Hoxford" isn't the most sophisticated or well-thought-out comic ever written, but the main reason to buy a Ben Templesmith book is page after glossy page of his gloriously gory artwork. Among the extras in the book is a cover gallery that gives Templesmith several two-page spreads on which to show off. No one can splatter crimson across a canvas like Templesmith can.
review 2: I adore Ben Templesmith. He was the best thing about 30 Days of Night (the writing just couldn't live up to his art). Welcome to Hoxford is a stand-alone both written and illustrated by Mr. Templesmith and it is awesome. And very disturbing. My husband got about 10 or pages in and went, "Nope. Not reading this. Don't want the nightmares." I loved it!Who doesn't love a comic set in an asylum for the criminally insane run by a mysterious Russian corporation? I don't want to say very much because I don't want to include any spoilers, but this book will scare your pants off. Templesmith's art is gorgeous, his writing is wonderful, and he manages two different things at once: the out of the corner of your eye kind of suspense, and the aftermath when that thing you thought you saw out of the corner of your eye appears and rocks your world.Horror comics and horror books and horror movies are all three things that are very difficult to do well. There are so many cliches and so often things tend to devolve into something resembling torture porn. Mr. Templesmith knows from horror - he can write it, he can illustrate it, and he's in my pantheon - right up there with Messrs. Moore, Gaiman, and Morrison. Can't wait to start Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse (an ongoing series)! less

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