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Witchfinder Volume 2: Lost And Gone Forever (2006)

by Mike Mignola(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Dark Horse Comics

series

Witchfinder

review 1: I love the Mignola-verse, but "Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder: Lost and Gone Forever" left me underwhelmed. The premise behind this volume is that our Victorian-era foe of the supernatural heads to the Wild West to track down a missing (and possibly evil) British Lord. There Gray gets into some saloon showdowns and deals with Native American spiritualism before coming to a new, uneasy peace with magic.The problem is that Gray is basically a sidekick in his own story. A grizzled old cowpoke named Morgan Kaler (aka, Sam Elliott) rescues our nominal hero from one jam after another, fending off the undead and helpfully pinpointing the source of the evil. Unfortunately, Kaler is a cowboy stereotype that's not too interesting in his own right, and Gray ends up looking a little sil... morely for being overshadowed all the time by his All-American counterpart. The end of the story is a bit of a dodge too, and the whole thing never seems to quite settle on the right balance between spoof and seriousness.The art by John Severin is fine but wasn't fully to my taste. The basic line felt a little wobbly, and there aren't many spreads or action sequences that stay lodged in the mind. Maybe volume three will be more to my liking.
review 2: I'm slowly becoming a BIG fan of Graphic Novels... there's something about the telling of a story, not as purely visual as a movie, and not as purely verbal as a story... and yet the artwork isn't exactly a hybrid either. A kind of artform, a form of storytelling that is unique.Of course, I was hesitant to snag this book, because it said it was part of 'the world of Hellboy'- and much of a 'hellboy' fan tho I am in the movie genre, I am generally not into the kinds of comics/graphic novels about super-heros or similar genres. I couldn't see that this one was so rigid, so I decided to take a gamble, and I am GLAD I did!I was surprised to find out after I read it, that it was a #2 of 2 in a series, and have promptly ordered #1 from the library- but that is icing on the cake, because this graphic novel stood alone! It had no need for you to know anything about the 'universe' or 'setting' it is written about, and it still managed a fantastic story.I'm definately becoming a fan of these, rapidly, in fact! I give this one a four out of five, because I still prefer non 'genre' books so far- but it was definately worth reading. Probably even moreso for fans of Hellboy in comic/graphic form! less

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