A little late and wrong but my schedule is finally clearing up.
A changing of the guard has taken place. Capullo has moved on to DC’s Batman and has left Haunt in the hands of a team I haven’t heard of before. This is most likely due to my over-zealous focus on only a few names in the industry, but this still had me worried going in. Would the overall feel change? Would a new art direction break the concept all together? Will I find myself hoping that Capullo & Glapion will take it upon themselves to juggle to major release titles? None of those things. I find that I’m more pissed that the new team nailed exactly what I wanted our site’s webcomic to look like and kept it epic. Damn people doing what I want well before my apathy wears off.
I’ve been spending weeks trying to figure out an art direction for this site’s comic. I was stumbling closer and closer to getting something together, never quite there but always hoping for that breakthrough. Then WHAM! I finally get out to the local shop and see that Nathan Fox and his equally as skilled colorist FCO Plascencia had figured everything out and nailed it first time through. Beyond the great new visuals I’ve also noticed that the story has picked up pace, drastically. Props to Joe Casey on giving Haunt an edge I had been waiting for ever since his fight with the The Apparition. After a quick moment of foreshadowing I was introduced to a group I had yet to see in the series (started with the 2nd trade book. Really pissed at myself for this). Then I was given a bunch of WHAT THE FUCK moments that now has me yearning to read the next issue. In all of the Haunt series that I’ve been privileged enough to check out, #19 is now my hook that will have me certainly coming back for more.
Can’t wait to pick up #20. I feel so reinvigorated. If it weren’t 3 in the morning I would put several more hours into my lore books. *grumble grumble
