delightfully creepy and disturbing.
needs a couple of reads to fully appreciate. ( )

So I honestly don't have much to say about this one. Pixu: The Mark of Evil sets out to be dark and disturbing. It's a tale about a group of people, linked by the darkness overtaking them, and all headed for certain destruction. In theory, that sounds like a story that I'd be all over. In practice, it's very odd and more than a little confusing.

While I thought that the art in Pixu: The Mark of Evil was a little rough, I actually did end up liking it after a while. It sets the stage for malice and mystery. The problem with this graphic novel lies mostly in the story itself. It is terribly disjointed. There's no time to fully understand where any one person in this story is actually coming from, and so reading this is like holding on to a piece of driftwood in a rough current. Only that piece of driftwood keeps getting smaller and smaller. There's nothing to cling to.

That's my spiel. I think this was a great idea, it just needed more polish. ( )

Beautiful images, love the sense of creepy without ever revealing the monster wholly. ( )

A dark mark scribbled on the walls of an apartment building infects its inhabitants and turn their lives into a living (and dying) nightmare. I've read other works by the artists and those are some of the best comics I've read, but this one doesn't quite work for me. The drawings are creepy enough, but the story doesn't really get concluded very well, or at all in fact. Unfortunately, I can't recommend this one for anyone other than people who are already fans of the writers and/or artists. ( )

Decent horror graphic novel that is more about atmospherics and the artwork than the plot or characters. ( )