Gloom Cookie, Volume 1

 

By SerenaValentino & Ted Naifeh (SLG)
ISBN: 0-943151- 34-1

Serena Valentino scribes the eccentric and supremely stylish adventures of a crazy crew of groovy Goths who spend most of their time sleeping with each other, swanning about in dark clothes, going to parties and generally being bitchy and miserable.

Underlying all that is a mystical mystery, as cute little heroine Max tries to find true love, friend Sebastian seeks the answers to his bizarre and distressing psychic episodes, Chrys seemingly subsists on a strict diet of monsters and that Evil Queen of the Night Isabella plots and manipulates everyone. And just what is the deal with the Carnival Macabre?

Ted Naifeh illustrates a dark lyrical, blend of Dangerous Liaisons and EastEnders by way of Dawson’s Creek and Sleepy Hollow that has the oddest hint of Betty Boop about it. This and dark, subversively compelling series, which bills itself as “social treachery, unrequited love, bad Goth poetry and monsters under the bed” has charms for everyone to enjoy, not just overweight people in black with too much make-up. No, not nuns…

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