quirkycatsfatstacks's review
4.0
CRIMSON FLOWER #2, available February 24th from Dark Horse Comics, continues the tale of one young woman, and her bloody path towards revenge. It’s a dark story, one seeded with folklore and surprises.
Crimson Flower is one of those series that demands attention. The style and aesthetic alone are eye-catching, especially when in combination with the heavy use of Russian folk tales. It is reminiscent of a fractured fairy tale, but with a few unique twists.
This is not one of those happy fairytale retellings. This is the story of a young woman who watched her father get brutally murdered. Now, she’s using her love of those very tales to shield her mind as she hunts down his killer.
While not a happy tale, it does fit in rather nicely with some of the more classic fairytales out there. The original versions that is, not the versions we so commonly see these days. This is the setting from which Crimson Flower #2 springs out.
Check out the rest of my review over at Monkeys Fighting Robots
Crimson Flower is one of those series that demands attention. The style and aesthetic alone are eye-catching, especially when in combination with the heavy use of Russian folk tales. It is reminiscent of a fractured fairy tale, but with a few unique twists.
This is not one of those happy fairytale retellings. This is the story of a young woman who watched her father get brutally murdered. Now, she’s using her love of those very tales to shield her mind as she hunts down his killer.
While not a happy tale, it does fit in rather nicely with some of the more classic fairytales out there. The original versions that is, not the versions we so commonly see these days. This is the setting from which Crimson Flower #2 springs out.
Check out the rest of my review over at Monkeys Fighting Robots
graypeape's review
4.0
Kinda creepy, kinda trippy. The story was decent, a woman searching for the man that killed her father right in front of her when she was a little girl. She would sit in his office with him and read books while he worked, and her favorite books was on Slavic folklore, and now she pictures herself in various stories as she hunts for the murderer. She seems to be mentally ill, possibly schizophrenic, and she takes pills constantly; this adds to the mood, and made me feel as off as she was. She leaves a lot of blood and bodies in her wake, but when she finds the killer, she seems to have met her match. The answers she gets aren't quite what she was expecting. I found the story satisfyingly creepy, and I'd pretty much figured out what was going on at that point, but I don't think it was meant to be a big reveal; it's more the truth we're left with after peeling away the hallucinatory world the woman lives in. The art goes very well with the story- the style is odd and a bit surreal and isn't something that would work with just anything, but here it's perfect: it elevated the feel and mood of the story for me, and made the story better. The pace felt kinda slow burn to me, while having a lot of action too. I'd recommend this for when you're in the mood for something a bit weird and off.
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