Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees
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- USD 9.99
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- USD 9.99
Descripción editorial
Live, laugh, shed blood. Dexter meets Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Town in this twisted debut graphic novel! Don’t. Murder. The locals. This is small-town serial killer, upstanding citizen, and adorable brown bear Samantha Strong’s cardinal rule. After all, there’s a sea of perfectly ripe potential victims in the big city just beyond the forest, and when you’ve worked as hard as Sam to build a cozy life and a thriving business in a community surrounded by friendly fellow animal folk, warm decor, and the aroma of cedar trees and freshly baked apple pie…the last thing you want is to disturb the peace. So you can imagine her indignation when one of Woodbrook’s own meets a grisly, mysterious demise—and you wouldn’t blame her for doing anything it takes to hunt down her rival before the town self-destructs and Sheriff Patterson starts (literally) barking up the wrong tree. Cute critters aren’t immune to crime in this original graphic novel debut by writer-artist Patrick Horvath.
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Horvath's clever graphic novel debut cozies up to the darkness lurking beneath everyday life. Samantha Strong, a cuddly-looking brown bear and the well-liked owner of a hardware store in the idyllic town of Woodbrook, is a serial killer who makes regular trips to the big city to "play." Sam calmly kidnaps, sedates, and vivisects her victims: "everything neat, and everything tidy." But during Woodbrook's Bicentennial Days celebration, someone else starts to murder town residents, and Sam realizes this new killer's activities threaten to expose her own secret. Deciding that "this town's not big enough for two psychopaths," she investigates. The other townsfolk are also cute animals, from a nervous parakeet to the hound-dog sheriff to a turtle who pulls his head into his V-neck collar when startled. Horvath's charming picture-book artwork, rendered in bright painterly strokes and packed with visual detail, makes the gruesome subject matter all the more disturbing. What could be a simple visual gimmick elevates the story through well-crafted execution and thoughtful moments like Sam's woodland encounter with a normal, non-talking bear. Fans of deceptively cute horror comics like Mike Birchall's Everything Is Fine and Jay Stephens's Dwellings will delight in this hairy twist on the slasher genre.
