Saturday, February 20, 2010

Graphic novel review: Steve Niles Omnibus

Genre: Horror

This Omnibus contains the following stories:
1. Aleister Arcane
2. Wake the dead
3. Secret skull
4. The lurkers

All stories are written by Steve Niles and each of the story has a different set of artist for them. The art style for all 4 stories varies quite a bit. The first one has a painted look. The second one is a more traditional comic book style. The third one is a gritty comic book style art. The final story's art style is hard to describe, best I can do is a stylised comic book style.

All the art is good however and is a strong positive for this book. Being a classic style horror book there is a lot of gore present.

The stories themselves are well written and contain good dialogue. However none of the stories are ground breaking or present anything new. The plot lines are predictable and there are very little surprises. Horror fans will get good entertainment from this book, for everyone else, this book is above average.

Rating: 3 / 5, Above average, horror fans will enjoy it.

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