Four friends discover a movie projector that opens a passageway into a world threatened by creatures of shadow, where their only weapon is light.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
The Shadow Door: Elsewhere Chronicles Book 1
The Shadow Door: Elsewhere Chronicles Book 1 by Nykko and The Shadow Spies: Elsewhere Chronicles Book 2 by Nykko
Four friends discover a movie projector that opens a passageway into a world threatened by creatures of shadow, where their only weapon is light.
Four friends discover a movie projector that opens a passageway into a world threatened by creatures of shadow, where their only weapon is light.
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...The plot in this first book in the Elsewhere Chronicles—a French-import graphic-novel trilogy—is simple enough: the four friends discover a door to another world in a spooky house (which is architecturally quite modern, in a nice twist), and then two of them get stuck there while the other two try to figure out how to get them back. A few of the details along the way are introduced with little explanation, such as light guns and a projector that somehow opens up the Shadow Door, and readers will have to wait until the next volume to truly get a handle on what’s going on in this other world of menacing shadows and monsters. That said, this is an undeniably attractive offering, as the artwork, with deep darks and effervescent lights splayed across large, glossy pages, is strikingly rendered. Indeed, there are times when the textual interference on the story is rendered unnecessary by the action occurring in the panels. A cryptic, light-horror opening that should have no problem gaining an appreciative readership.
...filled with optimism, friendship, and a strong sense of adventure and wonder. Thank goodness we have books like The Elsewhere Chronicles...
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