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Hopeless, Maine #2
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Owen returns to the island of Hopeless, Maine to find Salamandra has grown. Unfortunately, reunions are cut short by a a new illness affecting the population. Is it consumption Or some vampiric disease. Salamandra and Omen investigate the source of the mysterious disease and try to stop a war between the villagers and the local vampires. Things only get more delicate when Sal's parents get involved! Be careful as you venture deeper into the source of Salamandra's powers and the story of Hopeless, Maine, as answers only raise more questions.
- GenresGraphic Novels
120 pages, Paperback
Published June 6, 2018
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July 27, 2024
It says book 2 but book 1A was a substantial thing, so as far as I'm concerned I've read three of these now
The Hopeless, Maine series is a peculiarity even among the diversity of graphic novels. It's a kind of gentle horror, a round cornered style of gruesome that is all about mood and moments.
The art is detailed, quirky, very dark (in terms of the palette) and fond of tentacles + disembodied eyes. I've been a fan for years, but art, like humour, is a particularly personal taste.
In this book the chapters are divided by full page art, two or three pages, and some (possibly all ... my art knowledge is insufficient to tell) appear to be tentacle-laced homages to classic images like Hokusai's Great Wave Off Kanagawa and Grant Wood's American Gothic.
The story focuses on Owen, newly returned the island and the first escapee in forever, and Salamandra, who is questioning the source of her magic. There's a lot of story, necessitating many frames per page and a font size that let me know I really need reading glasses (the ignominy of growing old).
I enjoyed the tale, which starts off mysterious and ends the same way, leaving resolution to a future volume. We get to see and enjoy a good number of the island's peculiar inhabitants, from vampires and semi-spectral children's nannies, to witches, skeletal dogs, and the rather inbred human population.
If I had any niggle it is my recurring issue with in-chapter transitions relating to change of location and time which wrong footed me occasionally.
All in all an excellent addition to the growing saga of this dark, isolated, and mist-shrouded island. This series won't be to everyone's taste but it is to mine, and a short time on Google should be enough to get a feeling for the work and decide if you're going to like it.
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The Hopeless, Maine series is a peculiarity even among the diversity of graphic novels. It's a kind of gentle horror, a round cornered style of gruesome that is all about mood and moments.
The art is detailed, quirky, very dark (in terms of the palette) and fond of tentacles + disembodied eyes. I've been a fan for years, but art, like humour, is a particularly personal taste.
In this book the chapters are divided by full page art, two or three pages, and some (possibly all ... my art knowledge is insufficient to tell) appear to be tentacle-laced homages to classic images like Hokusai's Great Wave Off Kanagawa and Grant Wood's American Gothic.
The story focuses on Owen, newly returned the island and the first escapee in forever, and Salamandra, who is questioning the source of her magic. There's a lot of story, necessitating many frames per page and a font size that let me know I really need reading glasses (the ignominy of growing old).
I enjoyed the tale, which starts off mysterious and ends the same way, leaving resolution to a future volume. We get to see and enjoy a good number of the island's peculiar inhabitants, from vampires and semi-spectral children's nannies, to witches, skeletal dogs, and the rather inbred human population.
If I had any niggle it is my recurring issue with in-chapter transitions relating to change of location and time which wrong footed me occasionally.
All in all an excellent addition to the growing saga of this dark, isolated, and mist-shrouded island. This series won't be to everyone's taste but it is to mine, and a short time on Google should be enough to get a feeling for the work and decide if you're going to like it.
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July 30, 2018
The latest installment in the utterly wonderful "Hopeless Maine" series. If you've not read any, then don't start here - you need The Gathering first (alternatively the 2 rather nice hardcover editions which combine to make this, but which I think may be out of print).
Eyes and tentacles (and spoonwalkers) abound in Hopeless, Maine, an island nobody ever leaves, or comes back to, until now, when Owen, who left at the end of the previous installment, comes back, and finds he has to contend with angry torch-and-pitchfork-wielding mobs looking for scapegoats for the wave of consumption that appears to be sweeping the island. Even if they don't really know why said goats should be scaped when questioned a little more closely.
As always, the artwork is both fantastic and fantastical, and needs to be experienced. So if you've landed on this product thinking that it looked interesting, then yes, this is for you (well, vol 1 and then this are for you).
Eyes and tentacles (and spoonwalkers) abound in Hopeless, Maine, an island nobody ever leaves, or comes back to, until now, when Owen, who left at the end of the previous installment, comes back, and finds he has to contend with angry torch-and-pitchfork-wielding mobs looking for scapegoats for the wave of consumption that appears to be sweeping the island. Even if they don't really know why said goats should be scaped when questioned a little more closely.
As always, the artwork is both fantastic and fantastical, and needs to be experienced. So if you've landed on this product thinking that it looked interesting, then yes, this is for you (well, vol 1 and then this are for you).
August 1, 2018
Just as magical and quirky as the first volume. A marvelous steampunk/goth adventure into the dim-and-murky parts of the imagination that many fear to tread, with Salamandra leading the way. Good stuff.
November 7, 2021
Another exciting, dark, trip into Hopeless, Maine. You don't come here for answers .. you come here for the atmosphere, the be-tentacled creatures lurking and slithering across the page, the too-many eyed beings who turn to look at you ... and this time there's vampires and underground communities as well as a plague-like situation to deal with ...
January 14, 2019
Better than the last one. Still a lot of unanswered questions.
May 11, 2025
That's the third and final volume of Hopeless, Main that's on my shelves right now: I will be buying more. Art work continues mukily seductive, writing witty but ominous. This volume centres around those two mainstays of the gothic genre, consumptives and vampires. Previously, never the twain have met; you can't very well cough if you don't breathe. Much consternation when that actually starts happening.
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