Now we have a grasp of what exactly is happening, this is getting more nightmarish and gripping.
The artwork continues to astound and the plot is getting twistier and twistier. The cliffhanger ending is almost unfair. it means i have to get the 6th and final volume much sooner rather than later...
It would be difficult to say much about what's happening without being very spoilerific for the previous 4 volumes. Plus without a good understanding of what's gone before I'm not sure anything I say about the story here would make sense.
Suffice to say the Smiling Man is a truly scary villain and it's obvious why this series won as many awards as it did.
It takes talent to drag together as many disparate plot threads into a cohesive story in the way Lemire has done here. Sorentino's art helps build the atmosphere and general air of weirdness brilliantly as well as introducing me to narrative techniques only possible in a visual medium like comic books.
Seek these out and read them immediately.
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