6/22/2023 0 Comments Personal Demons by Nimue Brown![]() ![]() ![]() The webcomic (in the same setting) commenced that autumn at www.itisacircle. In the summer of 2009 they launched The Hopeless Vendetta – a weekly newspaper charting life on the fictional island of Hopeless. They have been collaborating for years, brought together initially by a publishing house. Thomas and Nimue Brown share a love of gothic decay, poetry, wild landscapes and strange creatures. With a cast of freaks, nutters and the odd power crazed psychopath, life in Hopeless is seldom dull. Here, almost anything can happen, from the weird and unsettling to the darkly funny. Partly because of being small and forgotten, partly because the rocks and currents do not encourage visitors, Hopeless is surrounded by fog and overrun with nightmarish creatures, from small things with tentacles to demons and vampires. ![]() Some of them have very real teeth, and very real horns.The island has been isolated for a very long time. In Hopeless, the demons are not always abstract concepts. This is not the stuff of happy, careless childhoods, it is instead fertile ground for personal demons. The number of orphans rises continually, but who can say what happens to their parents? Plenty of the bodies are never found. The story was so dark and eerie that I couldn't put it down as I wanted to learn more about the main character and her history. I was simply drawn in by the art work and intrigued. ![]() Dark and intriguing I knew nothing of this book until I picked it up from the library. Synopsis: Trapped on an island off the coast of Maine, the people of Hopeless find life a little darker and more dangerous with every day that passes. REVIEW: Hopeless, Maine: Personal Demons by Tom & Nimue Brown. ![]()
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