I spent most of today either asleep or as close to being
asleep while being awake and being a fair bit cranky/pissed off at life, but there were some bright spots...
…‘Barking’ arrived and it’s a beautiful looking comic (and
really well printed by @ComicPrintingUK, the artwork is reproduced perfectly
and as an object it has a weight and proper feel it, like it will last a
lifetime) that draws you in and even at its most fantastical (by which I mean when
we are seeing Alix’s delusions/hallucinations) the story is still relatable. Containing
chapters 1 & 2 of the full length ‘Barking’, this is the perfect taster,
leaving you wanting more. 10/10. And I got a beautiful art print with it:
…’Barking’ is by Lucy Sullivan and the full graphic novel is
funding at Unbound and I highly recommend that you do back it and get the taster comic.
…and I watched the rest of ‘The Haunting Of Hill House’ (eps
5-10), which is a great ghost story. The story is set in the present and focuses
on the dysfunctional Crain family, whose problems stem from the Summer when
their parents brought Hill House, to fix up and sell for profit. The only
problem being that Hill House is haunted and the Summer ends with them fleeing
the house and one of them dead. The family is brought back together when one of
the siblings returns to Hill House and dies. This brings the family back
together and forces them to confront Hill House (and their own issues with each
other).
Each episode reveals a little bit of the past and the ghosts
and how it affects the present and the family’s relationships with each other,
and each episode gets creepier and creepier. At first you could believe that
there is nothing supernatural and that what is happening is just due to grief and
the natural frustrations and recriminations of family life, but as I say then it
builds and builds and yep it’s a full haunted house/ghost story and you half
watching the screening and half not, so that you can avoid the scares!
This could have been a good scary film, but by being a TV
show the crew get a change to really develop and flesh out the characters and
build a fully immersive world that makes you care about the characters and what
happens to them. It also allows them to play with the time lines, like a puzzle,
for example, you’ll see a character seeing another character doing something weird
in an episode and you’ll think ‘Oh this is the start of them going crazy’ then
in three episodes time you’re see the same scene from the other characters perspective
and it’ll be turned slightly askew, for example they’re not going crazy, they’re
just seeing ghosts that the other character can’t see! 9/10.
…and I did the G2 crossword:
……which ends the week and the upswing, as I needed to cheat
on eight of the 23 clues. The clues were a bit too chewy and I couldn’t get the
answers out of them easily, i.e. I’m not sure that ‘happen afterwards as a
result’ is the best clue for ‘ensue’. But I did learn that ‘Esau’ was the ‘son
of Isaac and Rebecca’ and that Valletta is in Malta.
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