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A review by rikerandom
Gothic Tales of Haunted Love by Hope Nicholson, S.M. Beiko
4.0
"Gothic Tales of Haunted Love" is a great modern adaption of 1960/70 American gothic romance comics. The comic anthology is spooky, bloody and super diverse.
An extensive introduction by Jacque Nodell, outlines the (short-lived) history of gothic romance comics and the motivation for this anthology and then the comics begin.
And what comics they are … Full of ghosts and ghouls, bloodshed and all other kinds of goriness but also full of diversity, characters of colour, LGBTQIA* characters, etc. I loved that combination and overall I also loved the comics, even though a few of them were too strange for my taste. But I loved all the different art styles, the variety of stories and especially how there weren't any damsels in distress but instead a lot of bad, bad ladies.
An extensive introduction by Jacque Nodell, outlines the (short-lived) history of gothic romance comics and the motivation for this anthology and then the comics begin.
And what comics they are … Full of ghosts and ghouls, bloodshed and all other kinds of goriness but also full of diversity, characters of colour, LGBTQIA* characters, etc. I loved that combination and overall I also loved the comics, even though a few of them were too strange for my taste. But I loved all the different art styles, the variety of stories and especially how there weren't any damsels in distress but instead a lot of bad, bad ladies.