Autumnal by Daniel Kraus

​    This was by far one of my most inspired October 31st selections, a genuinely spooky tale for a day meant for it.
    So you know that old jazz standard Autumn Leaves? I love that song. Well, Autumnal sets out to do for the autumn leaves the same thing It did for red balloons or Psycho did for showers. And it succeeds, too.
     The story isn’t the most original thing and genre fans will recognize a lot of traditional themes…returning to a small town, a small town with creepy secrets, a small town with creepy secrets but enough superficial prosperity for the locals to put up with it, to even pay an unthinkable cost for it…all there. But then again, nothing wrong with tradition is you’re going to do it right and do it justice. Which Autumnal does, very nicely.
    The narrative gets the atmosphere right, the eeriness, the bleakness, all of it, stab-stab-stab, and then twists the knife in for a killer ending.
     The art’s great too, gorgeous panels perfectly complimenting the story.
     All in all, a great read. Autumn leaves have never been creepier. Recommended.