In Scarenthood #2, from IDW, Cormac is still looking askance at the thing under the village hall. His wife is away on business, so babysitting is the new normal for the day.
Nick Roche, on story and art, (with Chris O’Halloran on colours, Shawn Lee on letters) keeps the ball rolling between daycare and dastardly monsters under the stairs. It’s stares and glares for dad, where everyone thinks they could be a better parent than he. The spooky undertone is splendid.
It’s strongly and cleverly composed, with its UK atmosphere coming at us as a breath of fresh air and different attitude. Rude, fresh, with a smoothly flowing narrative. Roche’s artwork is surprisingly ‘natural’, which is also a fresh blast of air; the panels flow, the characters gesticulate, exasperate, pontificate. The gestures, the expressions all serve to lull us into the suburban narrative, harmless and mild until we reach the mysterious woods…
IDW Scarenthood #2, $3.99 for 28 pages of content.
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