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octavia_cade 's review for:
Proctor Valley Road #4
by Alex Child, Grant Morrison
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
I'm still enjoying this series, although I think this issue made one thing clearer for me. The horror elements, increasingly, have become far less interesting to me. At this point, there are so many of them that the effect seems very much like the throw-everything-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks approach. I don't actually care any more about the mystery of Proctor Valley Road. What I am interested in is the relationship between the protagonists. The most compelling thing about this issue was the fight between the girls at the end, and it was all about the everyday stressors - fighting over boys, keeping shared spaces tidy, who always ends up paying for petrol. Admittedly, these are all very low stakes compared to the whole horrific death aspects of the plot, but that low stakes has character work, and that's primarily what's keeping me reading here.