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Salem Brownstone: All Along The Watchtowers (2009)

by John Harris Dunning(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1406320528 (ISBN13: 9781406320527)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Walker & Company

review 1: This is a strange mix of horror, carni folk, evil, magic, inheritance, past and present, the underworld, fantasy etc.I found the storyline and plot for a childrens audience, yet the drawings a d artwork quite grotesque and unsavoury.If you like Gothic macabre horror I think you will enjoy this, its a quick read, quite enjoyable.I just wish there was more to the plot and storyline, drawings could av been smaller to account for this. as too much detail in drawings not enough dialogue or plot.You dont get much more than a volume of 3 single comics so I'm glad this just caught my eye in the library and I didnt pay fifteen pounds for it at a comic bookstore, get far more for your money with a manga book. Saying that if you love weird, graphic dark art, and perhaps like it for i... moredeas or your own artwork then it would be money well spent.
review 2: I actually liked it though it reminded me of images I have seen from XXXHolic. Characters are long limed and hair flows unnaturally around the characters face most of the time. It is very surreal and all the images seem to move around you, not really any place with straight lines. Things are really dark, not many panels have been left with white parts. It gives the characters a very hunting feeling. The only real place there is light is in the astral plain where they seem to show more of the light surrounding the character.Everything has a really heavy inking, and lots of the images have crosshatching and detailing, though none of it really looks like it had half tones. It is all done by pen and ink showing how much time the author put into her art. The only things that don't have much are the characters whom are rather pasty faced and seem to jump off the page. There is a lot of close ups to lips and eyes when they start talking, making everything feel important. It feels a lot like a Greatful Dead poster and seems like something that would be good if on a stoner dream.The story line sadly is much to be desired. It thrusts Salem into the story without really giving any info as to what the heck he is even going to his father’s house. If he seems to hate his father so much, then why go there? And why would he care about anything about his father in the first place? If I was him, I would have just thrown the letter away. Another problem is that he always seems to have a stuck eyebrow, always looking like a stalker or pervert when he looks at anyone. And it’s not both, it’s just this one eye. less

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