Category: Coffin Hill
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With the aid of Photoshop, Miranda takes Coffin Hill’s art down worse than anything in the script could save. Of course, Kittredge doesn’t have a good script so there’s no hope anyway. The way Kittredge is developing the story–Eve versus a hidden witch, fighting for the attentions of the one good looking guy in town–there’s…
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Somehow it manages to slide further downhill and redeem itself simultaneously. Kittredge has a cool cliffhanger. As much as the issue flops–Eve’s now a completely lame protagonist–the cliffhanger makes decent promises. So instead of giving up on Coffin Hill, I’m back for another. Kittredge has a lot of problems with Eve. She can’t write her…
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It’s getting bad how often the art is falling off after the first issue or two in Vertigo series now. Coffin Hill falls victim to the same thing. Miranda is letting the colorist do way too much shading on the faces and also getting way too loose on the lines. It’s occasionally an ugly comic…
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I love the way Kittredge uses the narration this issue. The lead girl–Eve (I actually remember her name, not bad)–she goes home to her family’s manor. There’s a lot of good first person narration about her history with her family and so on. Then the narration cuts–as the character thinks of different events–to something relevant…
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Coffin Hill is–while definitely reminiscent of some other comics, book series and movies–its own thing. Writer Caitlin Kittredge marries some familiar concepts–rookie cop versus serial killer, teenage witches, haunted family–into something relatively fresh. The protagonist, Eve Coffin, is immediately memorable. Her supporting cast is strong. The cast fluctuates as the issue moves from the present…
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