This book was weird and at times confusing. Lady Heyn is a monster who needs to feed. A beautiful monster, but she just wants to go home. And historical gold rush town of mine that’s also a portal to another dimension exist. Through monsters who can take the shape of humans or steal the bodies of humans and live in them have taken over. These monsters want to go home, but at the same time they just want to feed. This book was an interesting ride. The illustrations are great, but there are seems to be holes or questions still left within the story. While I really enjoyed it, I can’t say three months from now I will remember what it was. ( )

Love it. Got a copy signed at Vienna Comic Con 2023.

The story is monsters in the wild west. Pretty book, funny details, and I need to know more about the town and the monsters and ordered the next two books already. ( )

*A Thank you to Edelweiss for allowing me to read this. This is my fair and honest review*

Actual Rating 1.5

Typically, graphic novels like this are right up my alley, unfortunately this couldn't keep my attention well. I couldn't connect with any of the characters and the one character I did like...was killed which basically ruined the comic for me. I almost DNF'd but eventually decided to keep going just to see how it would end. I will say that the artwork is absolutely gorgeous, which was the only thing that really kept me interested.

Overall, not for me but it might be for you. ( )

*A Thank you to Edelweiss for allowing me to read this. This is my fair and honest review*

Actual Rating 1.5

Typically, graphic novels like this are right up my alley, unfortunately this couldn't keep my attention well. I couldn't connect with any of the characters and the one character I did like...was killed which basically ruined the comic for me. I almost DNF'd but eventually decided to keep going just to see how it would end. I will say that the artwork is absolutely gorgeous, which was the only thing that really kept me interested.

Overall, not for me but it might be for you. ( )

In a small late 1800s American town, some unknown devil has been tormenting the locals for years. But then a beautiful society lady from Seattle shows up with her older manservant, and a town already plagued by a mysterious past and a secret horror is introduced to fresh nightmares.

A stunningly gorgeous graphic novel, and with a series of interconnected mysteries that are individually relatively straight-forward, but when all combined gave me a pleasantly uncertain reading experience. The drama is compelling, the horror is both gruesome and scary, and the characters all have individual agency and understandable goals.

My main complaint is that the art -- while, again, stunning -- was sometimes hard to follow, particularly in the supernatural action sequences. I had to backtrack, study tiny details in small panels over again, and then go "oooh, _that_'s what happened". That's hardly ideal, and really undermined the flow of the narrative. It also confused me needlessly as to what was intentionally unexplained from the story perspective, and what might be things I just missed due to the artwork. In fairness, this was only a major problem a small amount of times in a six issue collection, but it shouldn't be happening at all.

A secondary, much more minor issue, is that for a story set in the late 1800s, there seems to have been no effort made to make the characters sound period appropriate. Modern colloquialisms and turns of phrase many times took me out of the story a bit -- though to some extent, I got used to this as the story progressed and it bothered me less. The comic is translated to English from Italian, though, and it might simply be that the translation (which is otherwise clear and gripping and should be praised) has introduced this issue by not taking the setting into account. I'm happy to give the original language version the benefit of the doubt on this.

Otherwise, I'm very happy with this book. It never reinvents the wheel, but golly, does it know how to roll it. ( )