Between the Cracks: The Bride

Review By Sidra Roberts

Published by Studio Underhill
By Harris O'Malley

Okay, I'm a fairly educated woman and I just don't get this book. The art is decent, if a little over shaded. The story starts out interesting, but I'm just not sure what I'm supposed to be getting out of this book. What's the point? What's with the random pictures? Is she having flashes of these people's lives or something more sinister? Am I just missing something in Frankenstein lore that would make this all make sense? Admittedly, I don't think that I finished the book in high school because it bored me to tears.

This woman, The Bride (not to be confused with The Bride from Kill Bill), is created by a mad scientist. As she's coming to life, Federal Agents bust the place and she runs away in fear. She's sitting against a brick wall. One guy gives her money and tells her to find someplace safe to stay for the night. She says nothing but takes the money and continues to sit there and stare catatonically. She's then picked up by a man who promises to take her to a halfway house. In reality, I guess he's something like a pimp. He rapes her and sends her out with another guy who takes her to his flat and rapes her. She says absolutely nothing during any of this. The second guy screams at her that he wants her to make some noise for him. She finally after a while shoves him out a window, where I assume he falls to his death. She then runs to a pier and yells "Why?" a few times and then jumps in the water and drowns herself. I just don't get it. Maybe I'm not goth enough.

The art is okay. There needs to be some work done on how natural shadowing is done, because the shadows appear kind of haphazardly. Additionally it's occasionally hard to tell the other bald guys from the bald bride, and you have to go back and reread and really look. Overall, I'm not quite sure what to think of this, but if you'd like to check it out go to http://www.studiounderhill.com/ and check it out for yourself.


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