GREEN CANDLES (Paradox Graphic Mystery)

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: I like Tom De Haven's work (his Derby Dugan trilogy is great) and was intrigued that this took place in my home town, Jersey City (where De Haven used to live). Though the illustrations captured the local color of JC, the plot is a mess. Any mystery that hinges on repressed memory as a major plot devise is going to have problems. It comes across as a stupid way to move things along. Surely a writer of De Haven's abilities could have come up with something better. This feels like he wrote it in an hour.

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: I like Tom De Haven's work (his Derby Dugan trilogy is great) and was intrigued that this took place in my home town, Jersey City (where De Haven used to live). Though the illustrations captured the local color of JC, the plot is a mess. Any mystery that hinges on repressed memory as a major plot devise is going to have problems. It comes across as a stupid way to move things along. Surely a writer of De Haven's abilities could have come up with something better. This feels like he wrote it in an hour.