Gideon Falls is Lemire at his horrific best. It’s as atmospheric, loaded with suspense and excitement and thrilling as you’d ever want in a scary story. And as gorgeously rendered as comics go.
The thing with my reading of it was that the library only had the first five available for ages, so by the time I found the last volume some of the momentum of the story was, admittedly, regrettably lost. Which is to say that the conclusion, however appropriate and dramatic, underwhelmed ever so slighty. To be honest, confused ever so slightly too, but then the volume provided Lemire’s original script so that helped figure out all the nuances. At any rate, Lemire’s version of the upside down – the nightmarish world on the other side – is well worth checking out. In fact, his vision may be more complex than the original reading suggests. Just check out the supplemental materials in this volume for the multiverse logistics and schematics. It’s really impressive. And that art, those gorgeous double panels, the cubes and slices and Möbius loops of Lemire’s imagined reality are just…wow. Spooky. Freaky. Fun. Avoid barns. All in all, well done. Really well done. Recommended.
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