Written By Dan Wickline, the mind-bending
follow up to Call of Wonderland is here! Following the events of Call of
Wonderland, Detective Legrasse is still trying to make sense out of what
happened to the two murder suspects who disappeared, seemingly in thin air,
from a locked basement. But when she's called in on a disturbing and brutal
murder case, she realizes that there is a connection to be made somewhere.
Meanwhile, the back-story that follows HP Lovecraft's journal
continues as Lovecraft's disturbing dreams are becoming more and more real to
him.
The sequel to
the Call of Wonderland mini-series, Madness delves deeper into Lovecraft’s
journal as a murder investigation, led by Detective Emma Legrasse, holds a
startling connection. When we last saw
Detective Legrasse, she was chasing down Salome Gray and Julie Sands, the two
who would become the Queen of Hearts. Now,
it seems as though the horrors of Wonderland are bleeding over into the real
world, although it wouldn’t be the first time and certainly not the last. The essence of Wonderland is like a toxic fog
that just hovers around anyone who comes into contact with it in one form or
another. Slowly, it eats away at your
psyche, leaving you in a state of constant fear as Lovecraft found out the hard
way. Emma has been exposed to the
madness by holding onto Lovecraft’s journal and her current murder
investigation is only just the beginning of her trip down the rabbit hole.
One thing I
can say that I liked about this issue was that it was another addition to the
Zenescope Wonderland universe. Yet
another artifact of Wonderland, Lovecraft’s journal, has already sealed the
fate of Salome and Julie and now Detective Legrasse is next. Like the mirror in the Liddle house and the
hat of the Mad Hatter, the journal has created another connection to the evils
of Wonderland. Not only that, but it
even explains how Wonderland came to be.
Dan Wickline has been doing a great job of expanding upon the Wonderland
lore and now with Emma Legrasse in possession of the journal, nothing good
awaits her. The artwork in this issue
was really well done. Sebastian Cichon’s
lines have a real nice flow that gives the issue a softness that contradicts
the content of the story itself. Somehow,
that just works really well.
As it seems
to be the case with a lot of what I review lately, I couldn’t find anything bad
about this issue. Great writing, great
art, I mean what’s there to complain about if you’ve got both of those in a
comic? Those two things right there are
what every person should, and probably does, look for in a comic. So, let’s move on with this review and stop
me from rambling on any more than I have.
The Madness
of Wonderland is so strong that it has conjured up its own comic series. If anything can be said about dealing with
Wonderland it's that Emma Legrasse is in for quite the thrill ride with
mind-bending horror around every corner. Let’s just see if she can keep her wits about
her as she tries to solve this new murder.
A great addition to the Wonderland storyline, definitely go pick this
one up, you would be mad not to. For
more info on where to find this book, visit the Zenescope website or the Zenescope Facebook page.
Geek-o-Rama received a copy of this book for the purpose of this review. All thoughts, comments and opinions are those of the individual reviewer and we hope not the Mad Hatter.
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