Then we get to the art.ĭani’s pencils are erratic and in a way, undefined. And the Earth is cracked and smoking thanks to coal mine fires that a mega-corporation never put out. Weird creatures come out of the woods and attack people. Machado writes a creepy story before the art is even a part of it-women wake up with memory loss, unsure of how they got where they are. (Image: Carmen Maria Machado and Dani, The Low, Low Woods #1, DC Comics) The Low, Low Woods #1: Machado, Dani, and Bonvillain a Gritty Atmospheric Nightmare So, when Carmen Maria Machado, the Lambda-award winning, Nebula and National Book Award nominee author of Her Body and Other Parties, started writing The Low, Low Woods, a horror comic for DC’s new Hill House imprint, I definitely wanted to take a look at issue #1. Before Black Panther #1, he was already a popular writer on social issues with likes Between the World and Me and The Beautiful Struggle. For instance, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ long-running Black Panther and Captain America. When an acclaimed prose writer makes the leap to comics, it’s important to take notice.
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