![]() ![]() When Coraline objects to the demands of this uncanny world, she finds herself on a heroic rescue mission to release her real parents from the Others’ ensnaring underworld of rat kings and sideshow horrors. She is the only consistently depicted character in Russell’s interpretation, a nod to the immortality of girlish awesomeness that was downplayed in Gaiman’s original novella. Although possibly poor form, the graphic disparities among frames add to the frustration of Coraline’s quest. With black buttons for eyes and a penchant for ensnaring and starving the souls of disobedient children, the ever-mutating Mother-whose demonic visage is presented with particularly sublime rough inconsistency by Russell-insists that Coraline must have her own eyes replaced as an act of filial loyalty. Yet these idyllic caretakers fast reveal more nefarious qualities. In the tradition of opening a mysterious and forbidden door, a bored young Coraline discovers a parallel life on the Other side-one where Father’s chicken is never dry and where Mother always wants to play. ![]() Craig Russell’s graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. If you are living such a dream, I would like to share a new addition to the canon of textbook refugees: P. ![]() In these competitive scholastic times, I hold out a pinch of hope that the motionless library-goer absorbed in a biomechanics textbook has secretly hollowed out the pages to accommodate a read that’s a little more sinister. ![]()
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