LOT 13: Terreno maldito

Lot 13 #1-5

by Steve Niles

Algunos despistes pueden costarte la vida. La familia Waytt se va a mudar a su nueva casa, pero cuando llegan a su destino descubren que su nuevo hogar aún es inhabitable. Entonces deciden pasar la noche en un hotel. Craso error. El lugar elegido está plagado de muerte y monstruos. ¡Bienvenidos a un edificio que asustaría hasta al creador de El Resplandor! Steve Niles ya es una leyenda viviente del género de terror y en esta ocasión se une al excepcional Glenn Fabry para ofrecernos una aventura de tinte clásico… ¡pero completamente aterradora!

Genres: Horror, Comics, Graphic Novels, Dc Comics, Comic Book, Comics Manga, Paranormal

120 pages, Paperback

First published August 13, 2013

About the author

STEVE NILES is one of the writers responsible for bringing horror comics back to prominence, and was recently named by Fangoria magazine as one of it's "13 rising talents who promise to keep us terrified for the next 25 years."

Niles is currently working for the four top American comic publishers - Marvel, DC, Image and Dark Horse. He got his start in the industry when he formed his own publishing company called Arcane Comix, where he published, edited and adapted several comics and anthologies for Eclipse Comics. His adaptations include works by Clive Barker, Richard Matheson and Harlan Ellison.

Steve resides in Los Angeles in his bachelor pad with one cat. While there's no crawlspace, there is a questionable closet in one corner and no one is quite sure what is hidden in there...but we have an idea.

--from the author's website

Reviews

[Trevor · Rating 1 out of 5]

Gorgeous art by Glenn Fabry. Sloppy, nonsensical storytelling from Steve Niles. I wish the art won out, but in the end, I walked away from this completely frustrated by how incomprehensible the story was.

[Dávid Novotný · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wasted potential at it's best. Story doesn't make much sense and you must put it together from scattered pieces spread among past and present. Only cool thing is Fabry's (with big help of colorist) art and his detailed depiction of ghosts and violent scenes. And I'm saying that as somebody who doesn't like Fabry's art at all...

[Kyle Spishock · Rating 1 out of 5]

A terrible, pointless horror story more appropriately told around a fire by a little kid with attention deficit disorder. A family checks into a hotel and are haunted by spirits craving their souls. It’s “Evil Dead Rises”, but somehow stupider.

[FrontalNerdaty · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lot 13 is a comic series that starts promising enough but ultimately devolves as the issues go on. The art is the star here. There are some truly gruesome moments that are beautifully captured.

3/5 (more for the art than the story)

[Dan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Steve Niles is a smart man. As a writer, the guy is barely able to rise to the level of hack, but he is a brilliant salesman, picking collaborators that fans like me find irresistible, such as the late greats Richard Corben and Berni Wrightson, or, in this case, Glenn Fabry, whose sequential work is so rare that I couldn't bear to pass this one up.

The story is pure nonsense, something that a child could dash out in five minutes: "This family is dead in the past, and then a family now is moving to a house, and, and, and then the new family has to stay in a weird building, and, um...ghosts and stuff want to trap their souls!"

Nonsense.

But that Glenn Fabry art...man, totally worth the price of admission. Detailed, realistic, yet unreal, gruesome, funny, unsettling....The book hits every haunted house note possible, and you've seen (and read) it all before, but the art saves the day, and the ending is a perfect smash-cut scene that Stanley Kubrick would approve of. You got me again, Niles!

[Scott Waldie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was really weak, probably because a 5-issue span just isn't enough to get us involved, or to properly flesh out the story. It's the story of a family moving somewhere, and we're sort of left hanging as to whether or not they got there, since they run into a phantasmal haunt and spend most of the issues running from grotesque undead beings. The artwork is gruesome, some of the characters look really goofy on some panels, while others look good; but sometimes it felt like the story itself was just trying to chain along from one nasty image to another to fill up space. There might have been potential, there might have been a better story, but it's over before you know it and you're left to wonder what really happened, which would be more profound if we'd actually cared about the events leading up to it.

[Romano · Rating 2 out of 5]

Una historia con buenas ideas, buenas ilustraciones, pero con una ejecución un tanto irregular y con una conclusión bastante cuestionable. A pesar de todos sus defectos es sumamente entretenida, especialmente si no se espera nada extraordinario. Las ilustraciones de Glenn Fabry elevan sustancialmente la calidad de la historia.

[Ian Liu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love the art, the story is ok...

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another one of those Steve Niles stories where he doesn't really want to explain anything. This one is about a family that somehow ends up in a haunted apartment building. One where I guess geography doesn't matter. They're supposed to be in Virginia although the end of the book looks like the desert. Niles also needs to take some history lessons because they are supposed to be in an English colony at the beginning and he refers to Louis XIV being king twice. The Louis's were kings of France, not England.

Glenn Fabry is a great choice for the art. He makes all these ghosts look terrifying and gross.

[Morgan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I accessed a digital review copy of this book from the publisher.
A family of five attempts to move into their first home, unfortunately, the home is not ready so they stay at a mysterious hotel. They find that the rooms are already occupied, by the dead. The family must fight to escape and survive.
The pages are bloody and gory. The story is present just enough to move from one bloody event to another.

[Joanne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Art: 4; story: 2 for a total middling 3 stars. The art is totally grotesque but good grotesque. The story entails a lot of running around an abandoned apartment building avoiding zombies. And if you can’t beat them, join them. If horror comics are your jam, you’ll probably like this one. If only for the maggots.

[Riley · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't really like this one. It felt like a lot of the gore and violence was for violence sake, like really shock and awe, but the story just doesn't really hold up. It takes some weird turns that don't make any sense and I'm left feeling more than a little disappointed.

[Vittorio Rainone · Rating 1 out of 5]

Un racconto horror come non dovrebbero essere mai fatti. Una vera schifezza

[Lindsey Lawntea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kind of rushed but fun. Reminded me of Thir13en Ghosts a bit.

[Miles · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was fine. Heavy on the gore and it felt like there were too many ideas crammed in for a short-run comic.

[Alana]

DNF, I was so bored and annoyed

[Heather Duvall · Rating 2 out of 5]

A gory creepy graphic novel, was not a huge fan and the story could have been longer and better, it felt like it mostly focused on gore.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5

[Kibocchi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading this felt like watching a horror movie.

[Richard Thornley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Art great. Story amusing but makes no sense.

[Robert · Rating 2 out of 5]

Spooky and disturbing art is not enough to salvage an underplotted mess.

[Tomáš Drako · Rating 4 out of 5]

Toto bol poriadny duchársky horor. Trocha mi to pripomenulo film 13 duchov. Kresba správne krvava a brutálna.

[Niall · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty good art and an *almost* interesting setup, but the “twists” were all obvious and the plot was somehow both thin and overcomplicated at the same time.

[Katherine · Rating 1 out of 5]

Nonsensical. Art was fine.

[Labeeb Xaman · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Fabry's art. Loved his covers in 'Preacher' series. It was nice to see his art in the whole book instead of just the covers. Glad that DC decided to do this. IMO they've rarely done non-superhero books. I didn't like the ending very much though. It wasn't my kind. But a lot of people like this kind of ending. I hope to see more of these kinds of comics by DC.

[David Musto · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lot 13 is about a married couple that has finally saved up enough money to afford a house for themselves and their three kids. It doesn't take long for things to get all Shining up in there. What happens next will give you goosebumps.

Please check out my full review here: http://www.examiner.com/review/get-th...

[Tazio Bettin · Rating 1 out of 5]

the art is good but often the characters' expressions are a bit off. The story is completely worthless, with a predictable and insignificant twist that further sinks this graphic novel into oblivion. Waste of money.

[❦ · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't really like this one. It felt like a lot of the gore and violence was for violence sake, like really shock and awe. But the story just doesn't really hold up. It takes some weird turns that dont make any sense and i'm left feeling more than a little disappointed.

[Elle · Rating 4 out of 5]

The dialogue was touch and go.

[Jason · Rating 2 out of 5]

A potentially interesting concept to start, but it's drowned out by inconsistencies, sometimes iffy artwork, and characters that aren't interesting.