I’ve had trouble understanding this story. I mostly
understand up to the part where Hathaway lost his son and goes to Burgess,
right?, and the various dreams. However, I will address the formatting of the
graphic novel. The cover photo kind of creeped me out but I love how the story
was drawn. Although it was a bit confusing to follow, the imagery itself is
beautiful. I loved when Burgess was making the potion and used repetition by
saying “come” constantly and calling different entities. This made me feel his
potion. When I read stories like this, I like to read them out loud in
different voices and for a moment I felt like I was creating my own spell and
scared myself. Maybe I get too much into the story.
Also, The dark eyes really capture me. Did you notice them?
Most to all of the characters had dark eyes. I think this not only symbolized sleeplessness
but it symbolized these mystery characters. Unity dreamed of a man with eyes like
the stars and said this beautiful line, “His eyes burn like twin stars in her
head.” The imagery of eyes wearing off on some ones face came to mind because
all stars die eventually. The connection I made to eyes with this story is that
in the dark, we are unable to see clearly and eyes are considered the channel
to our souls, however, the inability to see eyes is what powers the entities of
the dark. Meaning, the spell in the story is so effective because the entities
he was calling upon lurk in the dark and drawing the characters with dark eyes fuels
the development of the story because it is written in a more magical sense. Or
maybe a better way to say it is, the symbolism of drawing dark eyes suggest a
more magical sense since we are unable to physically see spells or the
creatures in the story.