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A review by crookedtreehouse
Abe Sapien, Volume 2: The Devil Does Not Jest and Other Stories by Mike Mignola
4.0
After several disappointing Mignolaverse books in a row, I considered giving up my marathon. I saw that this collection fell into the And Other Stories category, and the pangs of [b:Hellboy, Vol. 11: The Bride of Hell and Others|11253748|Hellboy, Vol. 11 The Bride of Hell and Others (Hellboy, #11)|Mike Mignola|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1486039384s/11253748.jpg|16180366] started twitching my peepers.
But the first story, The Haunted Boy, co-written by [a:John Arcudi|197005|John Arcudi|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1476454119p2/197005.jpg], felt more like a finished story than Mignola's usual Weird Set Up, Fight Scene, Okay We're Done style of narrative. All the characters felt real and fleshed out, and had conversations and motives that seemed more than just devices to push the story to its conclusion.
This is followed up with The Abyssal Plain, which twisted tropes like some of the better episodes of Venture Brothers but without winking at the reader, hoping they're impressed with the trope twisting.
The Devil Does Not Jest was the weakest of the stories, for me, but it didn't at all make me regret continuing on with reading a ton of Mignola books to start off this snowy year.
But the first story, The Haunted Boy, co-written by [a:John Arcudi|197005|John Arcudi|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1476454119p2/197005.jpg], felt more like a finished story than Mignola's usual Weird Set Up, Fight Scene, Okay We're Done style of narrative. All the characters felt real and fleshed out, and had conversations and motives that seemed more than just devices to push the story to its conclusion.
This is followed up with The Abyssal Plain, which twisted tropes like some of the better episodes of Venture Brothers but without winking at the reader, hoping they're impressed with the trope twisting.
The Devil Does Not Jest was the weakest of the stories, for me, but it didn't at all make me regret continuing on with reading a ton of Mignola books to start off this snowy year.