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octavia_cade 's review for:
Proctor Valley Road
by Alex Child, Grant Morrison
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
I read and reviewed each of the five issues collected here separately, so this is basically just for my own records. The first issue got three and a half stars from me and the rest got three, so the collected rating was easy. It's a fun series, and I liked it, but it's very much a series of two elements. The first, and for me the least successful, was the underlining horror story. As the comics went on, I got less and less interested in what was actually going on at Proctor Valley Road. I think there were just too many elements, and the whole subsequently felt overloaded, scattered, and not that scary (although the hyena creatures get an honourable mention).
On the other hand, the relationships between the teen protagonists were more successful, especially as the story developed and they came more and more into conflict. This was the realistic, low-key element of the text, and it felt as if more care went into developing this part of the story than the actual horror. So: likeable but flawed, I think.
On the other hand, the relationships between the teen protagonists were more successful, especially as the story developed and they came more and more into conflict. This was the realistic, low-key element of the text, and it felt as if more care went into developing this part of the story than the actual horror. So: likeable but flawed, I think.