More Weight: A Salem Story by Ben WickeyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
As one of untold thousands of people who appeared in a high school production of The Crucible, I was curious to see the actual story unfold in sequential art format. Ben Wickey has a gift for both words and images, which works wonders for the parts of the narrative devoted to the judicial murder of innocent people. I particularly enjoyed the clear visual distinctions between victims and perpetrators alike, most helpful in cases where the names and circumstances are often hard to tell apart. I even liked the interludes where Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wander the streets of Salem musing philosophically. The meandering, repetitive outro ended things on a down note, but otherwise this was a great read.
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