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Friday 25 September 2020

The Dollhouse Family Review (Mike Carey, Peter Gross)

Spooky dollhouse, gonna spook it up, spooking people over time because that’s what spooky dollhouses do! Boo! Spooky dollhouse!



Mike Carey and Peter Gross, the creative team behind Vertigo’s Unwritten series, reunite for another terrible collaboration in The Dollhouse Family. What’s that stench? Oh, it’s another Hill House Comic!

There’s really not much to this story though it sure takes its time plodding through its numerous pointless scenes. The book’s filled with either nasty one-dimensional or just plain boring characters. Our protagonist is Alice, a woman who has been haunted by the dollhouse since she was a girl because of a family curse or something silly. And the dollhouse itself has been gobbling up people to become dolls in its house because… spooky dollhouse gonna spooky dollhouse?

Peter Gross’s artwork is better than it was in Mark Millar’s second American Jesus book (you don’t get much more thrown-together books than Millar’s offerings these days) but it’s still no great shakes.

Carey couldn’t write a semi-interesting comic to save his life from a spooky dollhouse and I was always bored by this slow-moving, tedious comic. Basically avoid any book with the Hill House logo on the cover.

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