Now, with the true nature of the wytches revealed, Charlie descends into the Earth in a desperate race to save his daughter and his family from an inconceivable fate.
Scott Snyder is the Eisner and Harvey Award winning writer on DC Comics Batman, Swamp Thing, and his original series for Vertigo, American Vampire. He is also the author of the short story collection, Voodoo Heart, published by the Dial Press in 2006. The paperback version was published in the summer of 2007.
The fubar issue. The characters, all of them are all in deep trouble now, psychologically, physically and mentally. Everything is going down on all sides.
Wytches issue four pits all our characters into the worst they have experienced, even the bald woman. Yes, the one that attacked Sail's dad. Whatever these Wytches are doing to the family, they sure do some effective evil magic stuff on them.
Sve sto je do sada bilo dobro ostalo je dobro. Jedini veci problem je u tome sto pricu poprilicno lako moze predvideti. Malo me nervira i tempo cele novele pa otuda i ova trojka...
Esse volume foi o que eu nais gostei até o momento. Dessa vez a historia foi centrada objetiva. Mostrou o que tinha pra mostrar. Nos contou o que tinha pra contar e não deixou as coisas soltas ou incluiu coisas sem necessidades.
Foi apenas nesse volume que eu vim entender as bruxas: o que são, o que querem, come agem como se comporta e quis as ligações delas com a protagonista. É uma história gostosa, interessante, mas alguns volumes deixam a desejar. Acredito que se essa HQ fosse volume único com muitas páginas seria mil vezes melhor.
Ansioso para ler o próximo volume porquê tudo está ficando muito emocionante.
Some of the questions brought up in Issue #2 and #3 are now being answered. We see our first glimpse of the wytches. We learn more about the woman who attacked Charlie and whose side she is actually on. Sailor is captive in the wytches' burrow but is keeping her head and doing her best to escape. We see flashbacks to a time in her tweenhood when her father was deep in his alcoholism and showed her some tough love that left a lasting impression. The story is starting to really come together. The essay at the back is interesting too; it's about how the writer experienced anxiety as a child and found release through horror.
The story has taken a little bit of a step-back to introduce some new characters and give attention to what is happening in the lives of each of the characters, but I am still really enjoying it, and can't wait to read the last two and see where the story takes us!
Sail wakes up in a burrow filled with dead kids' clothes. She's an anxious kid, this we learn through the course of the issue. Meanwhile, Charlie drives up to Here Point, to meet the decrepit woman. She's called Clara Poirot, a wytch-hunter, who when she was seven, escaped the wytches cauldron, but lost her legs to the wytches. Since then she swore to hunt them all down. She gives Charlie a rope and he fastens it to the beam, she mounts the beam and offs herself, saying the wytches are coming for her, she'd rather off herself by her own hand. Before she does, she gives Charlie a backpack with a stinky concoction that'll make him invisible to the wytches, plus a list of townies he should avoid, which is pretty much the whole town, including the sherrif, Petal. Charlie goes home, finds Lucky has already forgotten Sail as their daughter. Petal makes an unannounced visit, Charlie tackles him, wrestles his gun away from him and forces him to take Charlie to his daughter...
A whole lot more of what is going on in the plot is revealed. a town full of narcissistic practitioners of age old magic who pledge children to be eaten by wytches in order to get what they want(longevity, beauty, disease cure, etc.) some people escape the wythces and learn part of their ways in order to battle them head on. now Sailor's father has been charged with this task. that chilling ending, "who's Sailor?" now that i'm hooked, i sure hope it all ends well for everyone. this issue felt a bit rushed, but i did enjoy the amount of exposition in it. the art is still interesting to me. i both like and dislike it.
Snyder, Jock, and Hollingsworth continue to make a marvelously creepy story that revolves around very human characters and fears. The art is still wonderfully moody, although I personally feel like there is a little bit to much "spatter," which makes it slightly distracting.
The most wonderful thing about this issue, though, was Scott Snyder's essay at the end about his childhood days at summer camp as the seed for his love of horror, and the sincere accounting of how the horror genre resonates with his personal experiences of anxiety and depression.
The story remains interesting and Jock's artwork superb. I noticed: 1. The spattered art style is getting more intense as the story intensifies. it's a bit like seeing how Dali paintings get more and more abstract as time goes on. 2. Charlie hasn't always been a good father to Sailor. I think we may have gotten hints at that before, bit now it is pretty obvious. I wonder what forced him to change? 3. Sailor is less of a pansy than I thought. I am curious to see how she develops as the story progresses.
Ok, I just realized Hollingsworth's splatters are adding another layer to creepy mindfuck since they are intensifying and getting more dramatic with every issue. I bow to you, art sensei.
Hm, I didn't like flashback parts, they disrupted the suspense level of scene for me. But the story is at its scariest now especially considering cliffie and I loved they didn't go with the traditional look for monsters. Next one should tie the arc.
All I can say is, if you love Horror comics, You should be reading Wytches. Story, art, it's the total package. I'm a bit of a Scott Snyder fanboy. But honestly, this is fantastic stuff. Jock is one of my favorite artists. You can tell his work just by looking at it. Totally unique. Wytches. Read it.
Yeesh.... This one was pretty bad. The payoff was basically a page at then very end with a lot of filler. The dialogue was on the nose, the backstory reveals were awfully cliché, and then story hardly moved forward an inch. More of this and I might not make it through the series.
The hanging scene I read at a frantic pace, the drunken child endangerment I read with a heavy feeling in my throat while I compared it to his overcompensation now. I would err this one more on a lower end of a four star, but really enjoyed it.
Cuando te haces una idea de como es el papá, protector y amoroso y te lo empiezan a mostrar de otra forma totalmente diferente es algo que no me esperaba, te hace pensar que la culpa de que sail sea tan introvertida