HAUNT #19

Review by: JohnnyDestructo

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story JOE CASEY
art / cover NATHAN FOX

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Price: 2.99

TITLE: HAUNT #19
WRITER: JOE CASEY
ARTIST: NATHAN FOX
PUBLISHED BY IMAGE COMICS
REVIEWED BY JOHNNY DESTRUCTO

Well, I’m giving it one more issue. If that one isn’t any better, I’m dropping this title. Haunt has never been one of my favorite books, but I thought it had its own thing going on that was kind of fun. I would usually buy each issue and after 4 or 5, would read them in a sitting. And as the series went on, I found myself getting more and more interested in what was going on, where the book was headed. They were starting to delve into the “why” of Haunt, of the afterlife, his relationships with the other agents, etc. Then last issue, they revealed that the entire creative team left and would be replaced with a new one. But still, maybe this new team would be great and take the series to an even higher level in my pull-list.

NOPE. The characters seemed off, especially Kurt (though that seems to be on purpose, we’ll see), almost none of the supporting cast are in the book and the art. Dear god the art. Now, I purposely went to www.foxnathan.com to see what his work was all about as soon as I heard his name mentioned, and I was actually pretty excited to see what he would be doing with Haunt. His style is in the David Lapham/Becky Cloonan/Craig Thompson vein, lots of flowing brush work, lots of ink…really, really great looking stuff. But…not so much here. There were many times that I had no idea what was happening in a particular panel. I’m not sure if it’s his ink work, or his colors, but it’s just SO muddled.

This is not a great start for this new creative team. Maybe next issue it’ll even out, but after that, I’m not sure I’ll stick around to find out.

Story: 2 - Average
Art: 2 - Average

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