![]() ![]() The difficult thing about horror in comics is that perhaps it's always scariest when it's in your own mind. Dark in the library, wondering how things could possibly end in a way that's okay. It's been a long time since my junior high class, but reading this adaptation brought back memories of that first experience, holding my breath as the boys hid from Mr. ![]() The characters are a little bit cartoony but not overly so, and Wimberly does an excellent job of conveying the eeriness of this circus that shows up in the middle of the night. The illustrations are in black and white only (as opposed to the full color of The Martian Chronicles) but I liked the style a lot more - and I don't feel the cover is a great representation. Something Wicked This Way Comes was a better experience. I think you're probably better off just sticking to the text-only paperback for this one. It doesn't hide the fact that the source material is wonderful - much of Bradbury's original prose is included verbatim - but I couldn't help but be a little disappointed. The layouts also use a lot of all-caps in the text, and quite often you can't tell the order that you're supposed to read the speech bubbles. ![]()
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