Title: Pixu: The Mark of Evil
Publisher: Dark Horse
Creators Gabriel Bá, Becky Cloonan, Vasilis Lolos, Fábio Moon
[Rating 3/5]
Review by: Thomas Braaksma
The genre of horror can be a difficult task for a writer and artist to tackle. The major obstacle is how the artist presents what the writer is trying to bring to the audience through just panels, pictures and dialogue. In movies, the director has sound and the element of surprise to use in his manipulation of the audience, but the artist has just his pictures and the writer’s words to haunt his audience. This obstacle, which sometimes can be triumphantly overcome (The Walking Dead), seems too great of a task for this Eisner Award-winning team of writers and artists with their new graphic novel Pixu: The Mark of Evil. (more…)
