Name: Pixu
Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
ISBN: 9781616558130

Gabriel Bá

Becky Cloonan

When a strange mark appears all over a quiet apartment building, its five tenants find themselves at the mercy of malevolent forces that bring confusion, chaos, and terror to their lives.

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Gabriel BÃ¡

Vasilis Lolos; F√ɬ°bio Moon

This gripping tale of urban horror follows the lives of five lonely tenants strangers whose lives become intertwined when they discover a dark mark scrawled on the walls of their building. The horror sprouts quite innocently from a small seed and finds life as something otherworldly, damaged, full of love, hate, fear, and power. As the walls come alive, everyone is slowly driven mad defenseless against the evil in the building, stripped of free will, leaving only confusion, chaos, and eventual death. * The 2008 Eisner Awardwinning team for Best Anthology Gabriel Bá (The Umbrella Academy), Becky Cloonan (American Virgin), Vasilis Lolos (The Last Call), and Fábio Moon (Sugarshock) return with their latest collaboration, Pixu: The Mark of Evil. "The story telling here is beautiful, creating a real sense of dread and supernatural menace. Smart, subtle and genuinely disturbing." Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy

Pixu: The Mark of Evil

The art in this is INCREDIBLE and the style of story telling really appeals to me. I tend to love horror novels that narrate in this same vague manner. However, I found it to be a bit TOO vague sometimes and the hard hitting point of the story got missed a little. But otherwise I enjoyed this one!

Jessica Nottingham

So I honestly don't have much to say about this one. Pixu: The Mark of Evil sets out to be dark and disturbing. It's a tale about a group of people, linked by the darkness overtaking them, and all headed for certain destruction. In theory, that sounds like a story that I'd be all over. In practice, it's very odd and more than a little confusing.
 
While I thought that the art in Pixu: The Mark of Evil was a little rough, I actually did end up liking it after a while. It sets the stage for malice and mystery. The problem with this graphic novel lies mostly in the story itself. It is terribly disjointed. There's no time to fully understand where any one person in this story is actually coming from, and so reading this is like holding on to a piece of driftwood in a rough current. Only that piece of driftwood keeps getting smaller and smaller. There's nothing to cling to.
 
That's my spiel. I think this was a great idea, it just needed more polish.

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