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jeriendhalSummary: Susan Bowell, a proper Victorian daughter of the famous Egyptologist Professor Bowell, finds herself fascinated by the mummy her father dug up of the Pharoh Imhotep IV. So one day she lets him out of his case, dresses him in a topcoat and tails and they go for a stroll through London.
Murder, kidnapping, and the dunking of Queen Victoria into the Thames insues.
Review: As you might guess from the above description, this graphic novel is an odd duck. It has moments of deadly seriousness that disqualify it for a comedy, yet the inherent situation grows so increasingly, deliberately ridiculous that a reader can't take it seriously (* SPOILER below). It's stuck between![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ursulav's fine sense of the amusingly bizarre and Edward Gorey's invocation of the proper Victorian sense of a situation being dreaded and doomed. Everything ends happily, if a bit blood soaked, though. Plus the sepia toned watercolor art is quite nice.
Recommended for those who enjoy Victorian oddities, but with reservations.
* By the time we run into Imhotep's dad, Imhotep III, who makes his living as a roguish tramp freighter captain (and still wearing his bandages), I kinda gave up on the story making sense and just rolled with it.
Murder, kidnapping, and the dunking of Queen Victoria into the Thames insues.
Review: As you might guess from the above description, this graphic novel is an odd duck. It has moments of deadly seriousness that disqualify it for a comedy, yet the inherent situation grows so increasingly, deliberately ridiculous that a reader can't take it seriously (* SPOILER below). It's stuck between
ursulav's fine sense of the amusingly bizarre and Edward Gorey's invocation of the proper Victorian sense of a situation being dreaded and doomed. Everything ends happily, if a bit blood soaked, though. Plus the sepia toned watercolor art is quite nice.Recommended for those who enjoy Victorian oddities, but with reservations.
* By the time we run into Imhotep's dad, Imhotep III, who makes his living as a roguish tramp freighter captain (and still wearing his bandages), I kinda gave up on the story making sense and just rolled with it.
