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Let’s get one thing straight here:

This is a horror comic drawn by the legendary artist Richard Corben.

If that isn’t enough for you on buying this mini then I don’t know what else to put in this review. I mean you would have to not love comics to not enjoy that sentence I just typed. Again let me repeat myself:

This is a horror comic, published by Dark Horse no less, drawn by Richard Corben. And…AND it’s about a freakin Castle that comes alive and EATS people. Now are you going to buy it!?

I wish I had this level of imagination but sadly years of looking at bright, violent colors on a TV screen has destroyed a lot of brain cells. Luckily Jan Strnad has enough imagination and of course this story takes place in a stuffy, 1800s era. We barely know the characters in this story but thankfully this mini is more about the castle then the characters. We get a truly, fucked up, origin of this castle and as unbelievable as it sounds I kind of want to see this thing being made. It sounds like a fun time….well except for the Pagans.

Again Richard Corben is drawing this and I can only imagine him doing this. He sets the mood so brilliant in each page it really is quite hard to read this at times. I don’t know how but Corben is always great at drawing skeletons or corpses which makes the certain moments in this more unsettling. Of course if the castle is filled with skulls you’d think these characters would be wiser on leaving right away. Corben is also great with lighting which sets the mood and more artists should follow his example when it comes to this. The castle is pretty gorgeous to look at which is important since this is what the book is about. Maybe we could see him do just a comic on castles because if he can draw them all of this beautiful then I’d buy that.

So again here is the checklist for this series:

Written by Jan Strnad
Drawn by Richard Corben
Published by Dark Horse
It’s about a living Castle made by Pagans!

Buy it!