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Pigeons From Hell
Master horror storyteller Joe R. Lansdale throws his scathing wit and wild, otherworldly creations into the mix as he brings Robert E. Howard's classic tale of dark revenge to the present . . . and into the unwitting lives of the Blassenville mansion heirs, twin sisters Claire and Janet. When Griswell fled the Blassenville estate those many years ago, he couldn't have imagined the grotesque horrors that would eclipse the ones he saw then - but they're here! With more than twenty books to his credit, Joe R. Lansdale is an acclaimed storyteller. He's been called "an immense talent" by Booklist; "a born storyteller" by Robert Bloch; and The New York Times Book Review declares he has "a folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace." He has won a number of awards, including five Bram Stoker horror awards, a British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award, the Horror Critics Award, the "Shot in the Dark" International Crime Writer's award, the Booklist Editor's Award, the Critic's Choice Award, and a New York Times Notable Book award.
120 pages, Paperback
First published February 10, 2009
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Joe R. Lansdale
825 books3,910 followersChampion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over forty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in more than two dozen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. He has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others. His novella Bubba Ho-Tep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. His story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted to film for Showtime's "Masters of Horror," and he adapted his short story "Christmas with the Dead" to film hisownself. The film adaptation of his novel Cold in July was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and the Sundance Channel has adapted his Hap & Leonard novels for television.
He is currently co-producing several films, among them The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero. He is Writer In Residence at Stephen F. Austin State University, and is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan: Martial Science and its affiliate, Shen Chuan Family System. He is a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts Halls of Fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog, and two cats.
He is currently co-producing several films, among them The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero. He is Writer In Residence at Stephen F. Austin State University, and is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan: Martial Science and its affiliate, Shen Chuan Family System. He is a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts Halls of Fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog, and two cats.
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June 25, 2020
i love anything that demonstrates the evil of birds. unfortunately, like the film dead birds, the birds in this book are only a by-product of the actual evil; they are more like victims of the evil than the perpetrators. which is clearly backwards. it's no kaw, that's for sure...
if you need further proof of the evil of birds, look what a pigeon did to my NOOK today as i innocently walked to the post office on my way to mail out a birthday present:
you, sir, are an asshole-pigeon.
come to my blog!
if you need further proof of the evil of birds, look what a pigeon did to my NOOK today as i innocently walked to the post office on my way to mail out a birthday present:
you, sir, are an asshole-pigeon.
come to my blog!
January 6, 2018
Oh man, I really wanted to like this graphic novel. It seemed like such a can’t-miss deal, you know? Originally a creepy short story by Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan The Barbarian, this illustrated version of “Pigeons From Hell” was given new life by acclaimed mystery/horror author Joe Lansdale (I read his novel, “The Bottoms,” a couple of months ago and thoroughly enjoyed it), who happened to be a lifelong fan of Howard’s work. Updating the story for modern times, Lansdale enlisted the artistic services of Nathan Fox, whose ropey Paul-Pope-meets-Jamie-Hewlett drawing style seemed like a natural fit for the project. So, how was this “can’t-miss” comic? Let me put it this way: it missed. Big time.
Having not read the original story, I can’t say how different this version is, but it feels like Lansdale took some pretty big liberties. The comic follows twin sisters and a few of their friends - I think, maybe, since the relationships are never really explained - as they explore the pair’s inheritance: a dilapidated plantation house that their enslaved ancestors once worked in but eventually were bequeathed. Of course, the house is haunted by the spirits of the slaves and slave-masters who once lived there, coalescing into a demonic entity. There’s a lot of potential in the premise, given the innate horror that went along with slavery, but Lansdale doesn’t really do anything too amazing with the set-up. There’s a great section with an elderly local man that introduces some cool voodoo elements but, in general, the story feels kind of generic, built on tired genre tropes. The bigger problem, though, is the art. Nathan Fox has a very visceral and gruesome style which works well with the house’s shadowy corners and grotesque creatures but sometimes he gets a little carried away; the action would sometimes become so energetic that panels would look chaotic and abstracted to the point of not being able to tell what’s going on. For a story that wasn’t entirely gripping to begin with, the art should keep the reader engaged with the plot but, nope, “Pigeons From Hell” is just a cool-looking mess.
I wish I had better things to say about this comic. I love horror and Joe Lansdale and eerie art, but “Pigeons From Hell” just didn’t do it for me. Disappointing.
Having not read the original story, I can’t say how different this version is, but it feels like Lansdale took some pretty big liberties. The comic follows twin sisters and a few of their friends - I think, maybe, since the relationships are never really explained - as they explore the pair’s inheritance: a dilapidated plantation house that their enslaved ancestors once worked in but eventually were bequeathed. Of course, the house is haunted by the spirits of the slaves and slave-masters who once lived there, coalescing into a demonic entity. There’s a lot of potential in the premise, given the innate horror that went along with slavery, but Lansdale doesn’t really do anything too amazing with the set-up. There’s a great section with an elderly local man that introduces some cool voodoo elements but, in general, the story feels kind of generic, built on tired genre tropes. The bigger problem, though, is the art. Nathan Fox has a very visceral and gruesome style which works well with the house’s shadowy corners and grotesque creatures but sometimes he gets a little carried away; the action would sometimes become so energetic that panels would look chaotic and abstracted to the point of not being able to tell what’s going on. For a story that wasn’t entirely gripping to begin with, the art should keep the reader engaged with the plot but, nope, “Pigeons From Hell” is just a cool-looking mess.
I wish I had better things to say about this comic. I love horror and Joe Lansdale and eerie art, but “Pigeons From Hell” just didn’t do it for me. Disappointing.
May 5, 2017
In many ancient beliefs, pigeons represented death at one time. It is also said a pigeon would land on the windowsill of a person on their deathbed and then take flight when they passed on, carrying their soul with them.
Set in the deep south swamp area, two sisters show up at an abandoned plantation that they've just inherited. They plan on checking the place out with some friends, but after discovering a giant pile of dead pigeons on the second floor things start going horribly wrong. The plantation is cursed, haunted by a demon summoned years ago by slaves owned by the original landholders...
Robert E. Howard, mostly known for his work on Conan the Barbarian, wrote the short story "Pigeons from Hell" in 1934. Almost seventy years later, Joe R. Lansdale has adapted it into a comic book.
About the art, Nathan Fox's art has a harsh, grungy feel to it. It fits the dark tone of the story. There is this one scene where the whole panel look likes old decaying photographs which are pretty cool I think.
Story – 4/5
Art – 3/5
Overall – 3.5/5
Set in the deep south swamp area, two sisters show up at an abandoned plantation that they've just inherited. They plan on checking the place out with some friends, but after discovering a giant pile of dead pigeons on the second floor things start going horribly wrong. The plantation is cursed, haunted by a demon summoned years ago by slaves owned by the original landholders...
Robert E. Howard, mostly known for his work on Conan the Barbarian, wrote the short story "Pigeons from Hell" in 1934. Almost seventy years later, Joe R. Lansdale has adapted it into a comic book.
About the art, Nathan Fox's art has a harsh, grungy feel to it. It fits the dark tone of the story. There is this one scene where the whole panel look likes old decaying photographs which are pretty cool I think.
Story – 4/5
Art – 3/5
Overall – 3.5/5
November 20, 2011
Teenagers end up at an old broken down house for what they call a vacation. Owned by the two sister's grandmother who are part of the vacation group. They find a pigeon cemetery in the upstairs, just dead birds stacked to the roof. The ugly strange man across the way tells them the story behind the house and how to destroy it. The artwork definitely has the look, but the end of book comes to quick and is just plan boring.
January 6, 2018
I thought this was a poor adaptation on almost every level. It tries to modernize the original short story but it loses everything that made the story great.
In his afterword to this graphic novel, Joe Lansdale talks about the task of trying to update a classic short story to modern time and adapt it for a different medium. He notes that a very literal and faithful comic book version of “Pigeons From Hell” had already been done. This project was intended from the outset to modernize the story and the characters, while retaining the elements of Robert E. Howard’s haunted house and the cursed Blassenville family.
The results were disappointing. I would have preferred to read the faithful adaptation.
The beauty of the original short story was its simplicity and its striking sense of atmosphere. Two weary travelers decide to spend the night in an abandoned old plantation house, but one of them is killed and possessed by a strange creature. An investigation reveals a chilling backstory about a family of harsh slaveowners, whose house was cursed by a mistreated black servant with a zuvembie, a variation of a female zombie created by Haitian voodoo magic. (The word “zombie” had banned by Comics Code Authority).
Howard’s original gothic prose does a wonderful job of evoking a sense of ancient evil and fear. It is crafted much better than his more well-known Conan stories. He manages to build a brand-new horror mileu out of the American South’s past, similar to how Bram Stoker drew on Romanian lore to lay the groundwork for Dracula or how countless writers have used the witch trials in New England as inspiration. To my knowledge, Howard was the first writer to invent Southern gothic ghost stories.
This comic adaptation tries to set itself as a quasi-sequel but nothing works. Two African-American ladies have somehow inherited the house, although it seems to contradict continuity to believe that any Blassenville of the past would ever have bestowed property to a former slave! These ladies along with three teenage friends—the relationships are never really explained—want to inspect the new property, but of course they begin to die one by one.
Lansdale ditches the zuvembie in favor of a host of other trite stock characters—a graveyard where spirits of dead slaves rise every night (drawn like spent cartoonish condoms), a malevolent cloud called the Shadow of the Corn (drawn like an amorphous blob that sometimes morphs into a monster face), and the ghost of a Blassenville woman who hid her heart in a Mason jar (I kid you not!)
The art is generally confusing. At times I could not tell the characters apart, especially when they were covered in gore. Some panels were just blurs of color denoting motion I could not make out.
Stick with the original short story.
In his afterword to this graphic novel, Joe Lansdale talks about the task of trying to update a classic short story to modern time and adapt it for a different medium. He notes that a very literal and faithful comic book version of “Pigeons From Hell” had already been done. This project was intended from the outset to modernize the story and the characters, while retaining the elements of Robert E. Howard’s haunted house and the cursed Blassenville family.
The results were disappointing. I would have preferred to read the faithful adaptation.
The beauty of the original short story was its simplicity and its striking sense of atmosphere. Two weary travelers decide to spend the night in an abandoned old plantation house, but one of them is killed and possessed by a strange creature. An investigation reveals a chilling backstory about a family of harsh slaveowners, whose house was cursed by a mistreated black servant with a zuvembie, a variation of a female zombie created by Haitian voodoo magic. (The word “zombie” had banned by Comics Code Authority).
Howard’s original gothic prose does a wonderful job of evoking a sense of ancient evil and fear. It is crafted much better than his more well-known Conan stories. He manages to build a brand-new horror mileu out of the American South’s past, similar to how Bram Stoker drew on Romanian lore to lay the groundwork for Dracula or how countless writers have used the witch trials in New England as inspiration. To my knowledge, Howard was the first writer to invent Southern gothic ghost stories.
This comic adaptation tries to set itself as a quasi-sequel but nothing works. Two African-American ladies have somehow inherited the house, although it seems to contradict continuity to believe that any Blassenville of the past would ever have bestowed property to a former slave! These ladies along with three teenage friends—the relationships are never really explained—want to inspect the new property, but of course they begin to die one by one.
Lansdale ditches the zuvembie in favor of a host of other trite stock characters—a graveyard where spirits of dead slaves rise every night (drawn like spent cartoonish condoms), a malevolent cloud called the Shadow of the Corn (drawn like an amorphous blob that sometimes morphs into a monster face), and the ghost of a Blassenville woman who hid her heart in a Mason jar (I kid you not!)
The art is generally confusing. At times I could not tell the characters apart, especially when they were covered in gore. Some panels were just blurs of color denoting motion I could not make out.
Stick with the original short story.
February 12, 2018
Joe Lansdale's updating of a Robert E. Howard short story feels as much like a Lansdale tale as it does a Howard one, and that's a good thing. The art is insane.
May 14, 2018
1970s-era horror comics are a palpable inspiration for PIGEONS FROM HELL. Some of the imagery gets pretty gruesome, so more squeamish readers may want to steer clear.
September 3, 2021
I was sad because I was expecting something along the line of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and it was in fact not.
This book contains no pigeons from hell. Only pigeons.
This book contains no pigeons from hell. Only pigeons.
August 18, 2016
Pigeons From Hell by Joe R. Lansdale - I ordered this book from Amazon not realizing that it was a graphic novel. I noticed it because it was by Joe Lansdale, who I'm a fan of. He writes novels though, so of course I assumed this one was too. I suppose if I'd paid more attention I would have realized that it wasn't. Anyway... when I opened the box, I was surprised to see it was not a novel. So obviously I kept it anyway, I read it, and I liked it. It's based on an old short story by Robert E. Howard. It's the first graphic novel I've read. I haven't had much interest in them but I really enjoyed this one. It was a really quick read; over the course of an afternoon and entertaining as hell. It was a cool little horror story with equally cool artwork. Although I don't really have anything to compare it to. I'm pretty sure I'll remember it as a good choice for my first graphic novel.
March 6, 2013
Based on a short story by Robert E. Howard. This tale seemed really rushed, and I didn't get that it was Howard's work. I expected more from this, but it was just okay.
August 19, 2019
Tan enganchado quedé con la edición de Palomas del Infierno -esos maravillosos cuatro relatos de Weird Western de Robert E. Howard editados por Pictus- que empecé de inmediato a buscar otros cuentos de Howard e incluso esa adaptación a historieta que me sonaba había tenido en algún momento el cuento principal que le daba título a la antología. Y como Internet todo lo provee, hela aquí. La adaptación -editada por Dark Horse originalmente pero de la que hay edición en castellano a cargo de Dibbuks, si no me equivoco- corre lógicamente a cargo de Joe R. Landsdale, uno de los mayores exponentes actuales del western, policial negro y weird sureño que, además, es un acostumbrado guionista de historieta. Un sucesor natural de Howard, vamos. Aquí, en asociación con el muy adecuado en climas pero algo confuso en narrativa Nathan Fox y el maravilloso color de Dave Stewart, atacan el contundente relato y la acción se traslada al presente donde ya no son viajeros casuales los que llegan a la casa maldita, sino las herederas del lugar -negras ellas- quienes no entienden demasiado como sus antepasados esclavos terminaron como propietarios del sitio en un primer lugar. Acompañadas por una barra de amigos irán a visitar y de ahí la cosa se deriva bastante parecido al relato pero con cierto clima slasher -así sea por hacer de jóvenes imprudentes a los protagonistas de la historia- que tendrá de todos modos el tono vudú que ya el bueno de Howard había incorporado en el cuento original. En unas sesenta páginas -unos tres episodios- la historia tiene su vuelo pero, al ambientarla toda casi que en la misma noche, se torna algo reiterativa (sobre todo luego de que ya está el pescado vendido y los pocos que han quedado en pie enfrentarán la maldición del lugar acompañados por un sheriff). Como sea, es entretenida, mantiene cierto brío de su fuente inspiradora y algún que otro pasaje visual está muy a la altura. ¿Imprescindible? Eso lo dejo para Howard, la verdad. Esta miniserie es un buen pasarrato y listo.
May 29, 2024
Бих нарекъл този комикс едно от най-големите разочарования, които съм чел някога. Създателят на Конан, Робърт Хауърд е известен и с доста добрите си творби в сферата на ужасите. Разказът му „Гълъби от ада“, е една от най-добрите истории за проклятие, отмъщение и ужасяващи вуду магии, които съм чел някога. Разказът може да бъде прочетен и на български език. Та, да преминем към въпроса - Джо Лансдейл се е опитал да осъвремени историята, написана от Робърт Хауърд през далечната 38-ма година, но общо-взето е изпуснал юздите почти на всички нива. Първият брой на комикса започва ударно, създавайки заявка за една много добра история, но бързо-бързо започва да потъва в бездната на клишетата и изтърканите обрати. Лансдейл е взел всички съпътстващи елементи на оригиналната история, като е добавил за колорит няколко елемента и от себе си, които принципно биха работили идеално, ако не бе така бездарният и елементарен сюжет. За съжаление обаче, както развръзките, така и отделните елементи не успяват да създадат кохерентна връзка, която да успява да задържи вниманието докрай. В интерес на истината дори илюстрациите приличат на размазана муха върху стъкло и честно казано в някои моменти, доста трудно се различават отделните елементи един от друг.
Не препоръчвам.
Не препоръчвам.
July 6, 2021
Fans of Southern Gothic and graphic novels will be stunned and spooked by the impressive art and atmosphere of this work.
Based on a short story by Roberte Howard (he was part of the Lovecraft Circle) and available as this interpretation by Joe R. Lansdale, I genuinely wished I owned this but was lucky to have found a copy in a local library.
Just from a horror fan viewpoint, Pigeons of Hell is really an interesting topic and currently you can still watch the old Thriller TV episode with Boris Karloff online.
ENJOY ENJOY ENJOY
#graphic novel #southerngothic #horror #interpretationoforiginal #pleasemakethisamovie
Based on a short story by Roberte Howard (he was part of the Lovecraft Circle) and available as this interpretation by Joe R. Lansdale, I genuinely wished I owned this but was lucky to have found a copy in a local library.
Just from a horror fan viewpoint, Pigeons of Hell is really an interesting topic and currently you can still watch the old Thriller TV episode with Boris Karloff online.
ENJOY ENJOY ENJOY
#graphic novel #southerngothic #horror #interpretationoforiginal #pleasemakethisamovie
October 11, 2017
On it's own, this is a good, creepy read! But compared to the story it's based on, it's just ok. Robert E. Howard's short story, of the same name, is much scarier and creepier and just a much better read! Maybe the weakness of this version is the expansion of the cast. Maybe it's the art. And maybe, just maybe, it didn't need to be updated. I really like Lansdale, and it is a good story, I just think that Howard nailed it the first time, and it probably should have just been left well enough alone.
August 27, 2019
No he leído la historia original así que no puedo comparar, pero probablemente habría quedado menos decepcionado si lo hubiera hecho. A nivel de escritura todo tiene un aire entre genérico y apresurado, hay cosas que no quedan claras o parecen sacadas de la manga, y a nivel de dibujo hay veces que no sabía qué estaba viendo, demasiadas viñetas bastante caóticas y confusas. Me gustan bastante este tipo de historias, pero este cómic ha sido una pequeña decepción.
November 11, 2022
It's a hard question to answer in the abstract: How do you know when a story is finished?
But it's an easy question to answer in reality: Is this story finished?
But it's an easy question to answer in reality: Is this story finished?
April 23, 2018
I'm not sure this adaptation translated that well to graphic novel form. It felt like it had a lot of clunky exposition, and then the meat of the story was just told in one big flash back. Still, there are some cool moments. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it.
December 22, 2022
should be "Robert E. Howard's Pigeons from Hell" as it's an adaptation of his story -- this IS a comic/graphic novel, folks
January 20, 2009
Two sisters (and their group of three friends, all expendable) inherit a rundown plantation home. Dead pigeons are stacked in an upstairs room, ghosts haunt the yard outside, and a murderous shadow creature inhabits the house. Could it have something to do with a slave's curse? Of course! The sisters must find a way to defeat the evil once and for all, with the help of an unnamed lawman and a 150-year old "sentinel".
Some of the pictures were really dark, and I found it difficult sometimes to tell what was going on. The ones I could see worked effectively, though. Storywise, it was a satisfying read, but the story wasn't really too remarkable.
After reading it, I tracked down the original short story by Robert E. Howard, but I haven't checked it out yet. An episode of Boris Karloff's 1960's tv show Thriller also featured the story, but odds aren't good that I'll track a copy down.
Some of the pictures were really dark, and I found it difficult sometimes to tell what was going on. The ones I could see worked effectively, though. Storywise, it was a satisfying read, but the story wasn't really too remarkable.
After reading it, I tracked down the original short story by Robert E. Howard, but I haven't checked it out yet. An episode of Boris Karloff's 1960's tv show Thriller also featured the story, but odds aren't good that I'll track a copy down.
February 1, 2009
Normally, I am not a fan of updating works to a modern time or context, but Lansdale recalls rather than emulates elements of Robert E. Howard's legendary 1930s horror piece, creating a whole new work. Combined with Fox's unusual, stylized art, the duo successfully presents yet another interesting version of "Pigeons of Hell," which has previously been shot as an acclaimed 1961 Thriller episode and beautifully adapted to comics by painter Scott Hampton. In this very collection, Howard scholar Mark Finn called Lansdale "the heir to Howard's legacy as the Edgar Allan Poe of Texas." With this work, Lansdale proves it.
August 10, 2016
Summary: In this revamp of the 1938 short story, two sisters take a trip with friends to inspect the decrepit plantation house they've inherited. Unfortunately, the house is possessed, and gruesome deaths ensue before the sisters are ready to battle the house's curse.
Verdict: Skip it.
Yay!: The plotline is creative. Suspense runs high; once the characters first escape the house, the reader will want to beg them not to go back. The body/injury count is both gore-spattered and extensive. Also, the ghosts are cute, in a weird way.
Nay!: Purists may hate the extreme liberties taken with the original plot. Much is added, names are changed, genders are changed, and even the explanation of the curse has been given a different slant. Secondary characters exist just to raise the casualty-meter. The art could have been better, too; when I first saw the two heroines, I thought they were zombies.
Verdict: Skip it.
Yay!: The plotline is creative. Suspense runs high; once the characters first escape the house, the reader will want to beg them not to go back. The body/injury count is both gore-spattered and extensive. Also, the ghosts are cute, in a weird way.
Nay!: Purists may hate the extreme liberties taken with the original plot. Much is added, names are changed, genders are changed, and even the explanation of the curse has been given a different slant. Secondary characters exist just to raise the casualty-meter. The art could have been better, too; when I first saw the two heroines, I thought they were zombies.
July 22, 2014
Joe R. Lansdalen käsikirjoittama ja Nathan Foxin kuvittama "Pigeons from Hell" (Dark Horse, 2009) on sarjakuva perintötalosta, jonka ylle langetettu voodoo-kirous saa veren roiskumaan ja ruumiinjäsenet irtoilemaan, kun paikalle saapuu viisi pahaa-aavistamatonta nuorta. Sarjakuva perustuu löyhästi Robert E. Howardin novelliin "Kyyhkyt helvetistä", joka löytyy käännettynä muun muassa Markku Sadelehdon toimittamasta Outoja tarinoita 1 -kokoelmasta.
Pettymykseksihän tämä sitten lopulta osoittautui. Lansdale yrittää parhaansa mukaan saada kierroksia modernisoituun käsikirjoitukseen, mutta touhu tahtoo jäädä vähän puolitiehen. Fox on kuitenkin suurin syyllinen heikkoon arvosanaan, kuvituksesta kun ei aina tahdo ottaa selkoa hyvällä tahdollakaan.
Pettymykseksihän tämä sitten lopulta osoittautui. Lansdale yrittää parhaansa mukaan saada kierroksia modernisoituun käsikirjoitukseen, mutta touhu tahtoo jäädä vähän puolitiehen. Fox on kuitenkin suurin syyllinen heikkoon arvosanaan, kuvituksesta kun ei aina tahdo ottaa selkoa hyvällä tahdollakaan.
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September 23, 2013Siempre lamento que el género de terror –uno de mis favoritos– no tenga más peso en el mundo del cómic. Puede que sea por el estigma sobre los cómics de EC y la estúpida polémica que terminó con la Comics Code Authority (y que ahora se repite, parece, con los videojuegos). O por las características del medio en sí; a mitad de camino entre la literatura y el cine, ni deja tanto a la imaginación como el primero ni es tan visualmente impactante como el segundo. Quizás este es el problema, y quizás en el terror este problema se magnifique al ser un género que a diferencia de otros busca la reacción visceral constante; es posible que hacer buen cómic de terror requiera más talento que el necesario para triunfar en otros campos.
Sigue leyendo: http://www.laespadaenlatinta.com/2013...
Sigue leyendo: http://www.laespadaenlatinta.com/2013...
February 24, 2009
Yesterday a big stack of graphic novels arrived in the mail. They were from my old high school friend Phil who now lives in Portland, Oregon and is an editor at Dark Horse Comics. This book had a note on it that it was one of Phil's favorite projects to work on.
This is a straight up horror comic, with ghosts and spirits, blood and gore. There are dead pigeons and dead people, and the reader knows from the start that things are not going to go well for the main characters, two sisters, descendants of African slaves who have inherited the plantation where their ancestors were once held captive and forced to work.
The story and art is pretty creepy, but thankfully it didn't give me nightmares, even though I read it right before bed.
This is a straight up horror comic, with ghosts and spirits, blood and gore. There are dead pigeons and dead people, and the reader knows from the start that things are not going to go well for the main characters, two sisters, descendants of African slaves who have inherited the plantation where their ancestors were once held captive and forced to work.
The story and art is pretty creepy, but thankfully it didn't give me nightmares, even though I read it right before bed.
August 4, 2010
I guess I didn't really need an updated version of "Pigeons from Hell." The stuff in the back of the book is right, Joe R. Lansdale seems like a shoe-in to adapt it, and the whole production here is pretty sharp, but it just didn't do anything for me. I wasn't a huge fan of the art, but mostly I think that I didn't like the way that the main threat got comic-booked up, complete with additional backstory, built-in exposited weaknesses, a Guy Davis-lite monster design, and a magical mirror weapon to use against it.
July 5, 2009
Sorry to say that while I found the story interesting and definitely frightening as always with dark illustrations in many graphic novels I couldn't tell what was going on in all the action shots - I confess I would prefer to read a description rather than try to discern several pages of small boxes. Fans of horror comics will definitely enjoy this! I haven't read anything by Howard, but became fascinated with him after seeing the movie The Whole Wide World staring Renee Zellweger and Vincent D'Onofrio as Howard and Novalyne Price - also a writer. Very interesting!
June 4, 2013
This isn't like Hitchcock's The Birds. The Pigeons are just part of the lore. I found this horror novel to be pretty decent vengeful spirit story but felt that I've seen this plot before. This is based on an older story and it's probably been adapted more than a few times already. I'm not sure if this was on purpose but I liked the ambiguous feeling of which era it might be. You know you're in a modern time but the characters almost look 70's and then there's this home based in the 1880's. it's oddly unsettling but in a good way.
February 20, 2009
I loved the Lansdale's adaptation- it was totally in the spirit of the original (by which I mean the original GN adaptation by Scott Hampton which is reportedly a faithful adaptation of the short story)- but the art was hard to interpret at times. I appreciated the style, but during action sequences, it was difficult to tell exactly what was going on. Still, 3 1/2 stars.
February 1, 2011
Two sisters and their friends discover dark forces surround the old plantation house they have inherited.
It's bloody and a little spooky. The art is okay. The story was so-so. I couldn't follow some parts of it. Others were too coincidental for me to suspend my disbelief. Not really bad, just unremarkable.
It's bloody and a little spooky. The art is okay. The story was so-so. I couldn't follow some parts of it. Others were too coincidental for me to suspend my disbelief. Not really bad, just unremarkable.
October 17, 2011
Thoroughly spooky and violent, but artistically quite lovely. This one is a graphic novel adaptation of an old horror story/ghost tale, and it certainly delivers. Just like Jaws keeps me away from deep ocean water, Pigeons From Hell will be keeping me out of swamps for, oh, forever - but so worth it.
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