A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night #1

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night #1 - Death Is The Answer

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is written by Ana Lilly Amirpour art by Michael DeWeese, lettering by Patrick Brosseau, edited by Ben & Jon Conrad and published by Radco. I picked up A Girl Walks digitally because of it's ultra creepy cover and strange name but mostly because it was only $0.99 and I'm shocking with impulse purchases. After reading A Girl Walks it seemed to fit the very definition of creepy and unsettling, so not a wasted $0.99. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is adapted from an independent film of the same name first released in 2014, receiving awards and being popular with both critics and audiences.

If I saw that at night I'd nope straight out of there

The story follows a vampire that stalks the people of the town as she contemplates the nature of peoples dark secrets and her own need to take lives. As The Girl takes a victim we learn she collects souvenirs from each kill, usually a ring, and that she has a lot of rings. The first issue leads us to believe that The Girl chooses her victims based on if they are either "good or bad" but her definitions of good and bad are not yet made clear.

Also she likes cats, so that's nice

The comic is based entirely around the character of The Girl, who gives off an overwhelming sense of loneliness throughout the issue. The impression that the girl chooses her victims based on perceiving them as good or bad makes you think that perhaps she is not a complete monster and does not take joy in her killings, shown when she turns away from a young boy saying she will wait to see what kind of person he becomes, but her collection of souvenirs from her victims perhaps suggests otherwise.

The art is done entirely in black and white and has some incredibly haunting imagery. The look of The Girl's look with her long hooded cape invokes imagery of the grim reaper without going over the top into the stereotypical Dracula look. The violence and gore is disturbing and confronting without becoming grotesque which is always the mark of a good horror comic.

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is a great comic that turns the creep factor all the way up and any fan of suspenseful horror movies will probably really enjoy it. If you're a bit of a scaredy cat and have trouble with horror stories this could be a good starting place as their is far more emphasis on atmosphere rather than gore or violence.

I give A Girl Walks Alone At Night 4 out of 5 skate boarding vampires.

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