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Review: Pigeons from Hell

By Kevin Agot
Published: 2008-04-28

 


Pigeons from Hell was a unique book that quickly endeared the core cast of characters to the reader within the first few opening panels. A rather difficult feat, mind you. That alone, in my mind, at least, is pretty fine writing. There are obscure glimpses and ominous premonitions of both the unnatural and supernatural that are strewn throughout the book that serve as both prickly teases and haunting foreshadows.

The rather angular and rough lines are realistic enough to grab you emotionally to live viscerally through the characters. The pages are flooded in blood red and deathly black to set the visually creepy undertone. The artwork and colors work in perfect unison to scare the daylights out of you. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series with the fearful and fun uneasiness I had after watching and looking forward to the old John Carpenter horror flicks like Halloween or The Thing. Lansdale and Fox have created a horror masterpiece.

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