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Seriously imaginative fantasy/horror.

January 21, 2016 by narfna 1 Comment

This series is so imaginative. And the further in you get, the more stuff it throws at you. I’m actually finding it really difficult to write about it because the more detailed it gets, the weirder it gets, and the more impossible it becomes to talk about. Tyler, Kinsey and Bode have somewhat adjusted to living in Keyhouse, and to using the keys, but their mother is only falling apart harder and faster. The still mysterious Dodge is seeking the Omega Key, the key that will […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Comics, crown of shadows, fantasy, Gabriel Rodriguez, horror, IDW, joe hill, Locke & Key, narfna

narfna's CBR8 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Comics, crown of shadows, fantasy, Gabriel Rodriguez, horror, IDW, joe hill, Locke & Key, narfna ·
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I wonder what the inside of *my* head would look like . . .

January 21, 2016 by narfna 1 Comment

I am really digging this series, ya’ll. The artwork is still hit or miss for me when it comes to the characters, but the story more than makes up for it. So in Vol. 1 we were introduced to the Locke family, who have just lost their patriarch due to a violent murder, and have moved to their family home, a house that is so stately it actually has a name: Keyhouse. We were also introduced to the idea that something is off at Keyhouse, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Comics, fantasy, Gabriel Rodriguez, Head Games, horror, IDW, joe hill, Locke & Key, narfna

narfna's CBR8 Review No:9 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Comics, fantasy, Gabriel Rodriguez, Head Games, horror, IDW, joe hill, Locke & Key, narfna ·
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I still don’t know what to do with this.

January 17, 2016 by narfna 2 Comments

It’s been days since I finished this, and I still don’t know what I think about it. I don’t even know if I liked it or if I hated it or if it was a good ending or a bad ending, or if it was even an ending. Like, yes, OBVIOUSLY it was an ending literally because the series is over, but good endings FEEL like endings, you know? Does that answer my question as to whether this is good or not? I have no […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: apocalypse, Comics, fantasy, meta, Mike Carey, narfna, Peter Gross, The Unwritten, Vertigo, vol. 11

narfna's CBR8 Review No:7 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: apocalypse, Comics, fantasy, meta, Mike Carey, narfna, Peter Gross, The Unwritten, Vertigo, vol. 11 ·
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Penultimate shenanigans.

January 14, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

The penultimate book in The Unwritten was a bit of a letdown. It felt really unfocused. Granted, the whole thing is about stories coming unraveled, and that might be the point, but either way, it wasn’t a super great reading experience. I feel like there could have been a better way to convey a world that’s lost its purpose without having the story feel a little bit purposeless as well. Tom has finally made it back to the real world after a year of being […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Comics, fantasy, meta, Mike Carey, narfna, Peter Gross, The Unwritten, Vertigo, vol. 10, war stories

narfna's CBR8 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Comics, fantasy, meta, Mike Carey, narfna, Peter Gross, The Unwritten, Vertigo, vol. 10, war stories ·
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A disappointing crossover with Fables.

January 14, 2016 by narfna 4 Comments

Okay, first of all, what the hell has been going on in Fables while I’ve been away? Shit is MESSED UP. Second of all, this was way more of a Fables story than it was an Unwritten story, and it was a clunky Fables story at that. I haven’t checked in with Fables in years, and the last one I read was Vol. 6, Homelands. That ended in a very, very different place than this one began in, but it’s not hard to get into the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Bill Willingham, Comics, crossover, Fables, fantasy, Mark Buckingham, meta, Mike Carey, narfna, Peter Gross, The Unwritten, the unwritten fables, Vertigo, vol. 9

narfna's CBR8 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Bill Willingham, Comics, crossover, Fables, fantasy, Mark Buckingham, meta, Mike Carey, narfna, Peter Gross, The Unwritten, the unwritten fables, Vertigo, vol. 9 ·
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Don’t look back.

January 14, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

This is only the second volume in The Unwritten series to get less than five stars from me, but I think that might be only a preference thing. This is still a great piece of this story. It was just missing a little oomph for me. I’ve got to save my five star ratings for the oomph. Which is silly, because this was chock full of unbelievably cool things. Little stuff paid off from some of the very first issues. Everything ties together. Stuff happened that […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Comics, fantasy, meta, Mike Carey, narfna, orpheus in the underworld, Peter Gross, The Unwritten, Vertigo, vol. 8

narfna's CBR8 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Comics, fantasy, meta, Mike Carey, narfna, orpheus in the underworld, Peter Gross, The Unwritten, Vertigo, vol. 8 ·
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