We don’t get any glimpses of the monsters themselves in this first issue, but having done my own research into the matter, I can assure you that Huddleston is more than up to the task when the time comes. The art from Mike Huddleston is pretty terrific – capturing an air of not-quite-right that’s very much in keeping with Del Toro’s own directorial style.
The set-up is pretty exceptional, with well thought-out characters and a premise that takes its time getting to where it’s going. Re-releasing one of the better ones just in time for the opening of the television adaptation, therefore, is something of a sly move in an under-crowded market, and it’s not to its detriment, given that it’s the brainchild of Guillermo Del Toro, as adapted by the ever-precise David Lapham. Horror in comics is stuck in the precise limbo between these two ends of the spectrum, and it takes something properly special to make a good one. Horror comics are something of a mixed bag at present – it very much takes the right artist, with the right writer, to actually elicit proper scares from a comic book, primarily because the medium by its simple virtues removes the ability to create the so-called ‘jump scare’ that motion pictures can elicit, as well as being in the slightly untoward position of being unable to leave much to the reader’s imagination.
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