Two twins in their early twenties seem aimless. When their strange mother goes to the house across the way, seemingly haunted and dilapidated, the kids are brought into a world of dark mystery at the same time as the parents story is doled out incrementally.

This is probably, what, dark fantasy, with mythological overtones. Near the end it really picks up, but the first three issues are very plodding. A lot of attention is paid to cultivating the initial mysteries around the house and the enigma that is their mother, primarily. And the later works pretty well, since that arc parallels a universal kind of parenthood of a distant mother. Without that through line this would be semi-boring.

It does finally reveal enough that I’d probably pick up the next volume from the library when it drops, but think the pacing issues would have bugged me even more, had I purchased it myself.