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[READ: May 9, 2023] Silk Hills
I haven’t been reading that many graphic novels lately. My daughter made the excellent point that our local library has an excellent graphic novel collection but that it hasn’t been updated in quite a while. So I was pleased t o see this book at work, especially since it was from Oni Press, a reliably weird publisher.
I don’t know any of the contributors: authors Brian Level (has written for Star Wars and Marvel) and Ryan Ferrier (has written lots of indie books and written for Marvel and DC). Crank! is Christopher Crank who has done lettering for just about everyone. Kate Sherron has a very distinctive visual style (which I see a lot of people don’t like). I thought it was pretty cool and unusual–it reminded me a bit of Jeff Lemire’s style.
I have been listening to a book of short stories from The X-Files, and this book immediately made me think of the X-Files. It’s also the kind of story that either should have been longer or should have had fewer hallucinatory passages and had more explanatory pages.
Beth Wills is a former Marine turned private investigator. She lives in New York City but is sent to an unnamed rural community called Silk Hills. It must be pretty far, as a gas station attendant remarks on her New York plates, but we don’t know exactly where Silk Hills is.
I enjoyed the interactions with Wills and the gas station attendant also a former military man (out six years). (more…)
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