Short Cuts 83

[Mark Sullivan (Vertiginous Mod)]

Short Cuts 83

Dark Ride Volume 3 – The Devil’s Due; and The Bone Orchard Mythos – Tenement. The conclusion of one Image series and the continuation of another.

[Captain Comics]

I was interested in both of these books, so I was eager to see what you had to say.

I have sampled Dark Ride a couple of times, not enought to distinguish it from, say, Zombillenium. An actual ending makes me more interested. What's the page count on this? Would it fit an omnibus? Have there been any HC reprints yet? Or is it available online?

As to Bone Orchard Mythos, I read a sample story somewhere, which was really good -- although, we didn't actually see anything bad happen, we just saw the consequences. And then I read Ten Thousand Black Feathers, but actually couldn't figure out what happened (my wife read it, and felt the same). In both cases your phrase "stronger on atmosphere than narrative" seems to apply. I wanted to see if something would actually happen in the third outing, Tenement, but it's staring to look like "stronger on atmosphere than narrative" is the intent, not an accident. That's very Lovecraft-esque, but I think that if there's a reason why horror writers like Poe and King are much wider read and much more celebrated than Lovecraft, it's because his work was "stronger on atmosphere than narrative."

But I could be wrong.

[Mark Sullivan (Vertiginous Mod)]

All of the Dark Ride TPBs contain four issues (about 112 pages each), so they would definitely fit an omnibus. I don't think there have been HC collections. I read them all digitally via the public library Hoopla service.

Bone Orchard Mythos had been very slow. Things do happen in Tenement, but nothing that could not have been done in five issues instead of ten. The artwork is so gorgeous that I expect to continue with it at least a bit longer.

[Captain Comics]

I agree, Andrea Sorrentino's work is gorgeous.

[Captain Comics]

The link doesn't work for me, Mark.

[Mark Sullivan (Vertiginous Mod)]

Thanks for letting me know, Cap. Fixed! I have had this happen before, so I usually remember to check the link after I publish.