Review of
Berni
Wrightson Master of the Macabre, issue #1
Four out of five stars
This comic
opens with the story “The Muck Monster” that is largely a retelling of the
story of “Frankenstein’s Monster,” only not nearly as well done as most of the
other renditions. I found it boring and tedious, it is largely the reason why I
rank the comic with four stars. The second story is called “The Pepper Lake
Monster” and while there is a real monster in the lake, it turns out that there
are undercurrents among the locals that are used to keep outsiders bent on exploitation
from doing so.
The third and
final story is a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic, “The Black Cat.” As a
fan of Poe and the disturbed nature of his stories, I was pleased to see this
introduction to the works of an underappreciated master of horror in graphic
form. I am also a strong proponent of using comics to educate in all fields,
including literature, and this story would work very well in later K-12 English
classes where the point is to introduce the class to the works of Poe. I
enjoyed it so much I read it twice.
Two of the three
stories in this comic are excellent, the first is weak, nowhere near the caliber
of the other two.
No comments:
Post a Comment