Beautiful Darkness #1
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| Writer | Kerascot, Fabien Vehlmann |
| Artist | Fabien Vehlmann, Kerascot |
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9.0
Bloody Disgusting - Zac Thompson
Feb 26, 2014Fabien Vehlmann & Kerascot have achieved something with "Beautiful Darkness" that I've never experienced before. They have created a truly melancholic horror book that offers something beautiful. For all intents and purposes this book pleases the eyes and disheartens the soul. It's an odd reading exercise that you won't soon forget, and its joyfully dejected tone doesn't make much sense. Yet, the entire thing works gracefully like a dance with death. I've read it twice now, and I fear what a third reading will do to my psyche. Read Full Review
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8.0
Nerdophiles - Ashley Leckwold
Sep 22, 2014Beautiful Darkness is not a comic for the faint of heart, even though an initial look at the spectacular art might suggest otherwise. It is absolutely worth the read for the way it tells the story of the kind of horrible behavior humans will inflict on others and stay indifferent to it. Just brace yourself for maybe needing something a little more optimistic when you're done if you're anything like me. Read Full Review
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10
This astonishing work seeps in slowly, settling you with Disneyesque anticipation. But the story's cued rules and social routine are upended into confusion early on and the situation quickly descends into panicked chaos, glancing horror, futile attempts at bravely re-establishing order -- these are themes that are revisited again and again in picaresque tableaus, acknowledged with only momentary befuddlement as you pass by, collecting imagery whose implications register only after you've moved onto the next interlude, received the next small shock. This is not your usual horror story - it is an illustrated fast-forwarded destruction ad decay. The closest that comes to it in feeling are the very darkest and most discomfiting of fairy tales, more
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