Good read! Your ability to inhabit your characters is really something. I never got into Tales From the Crypt comics (to young), but I loved the HBO series and was bitterly disappointed when I went looking for it recently only to learn that HBO (I will never call it MAX) no longer owns the rights. Apparently no one does. No one who can stream it in any case.
Ironic isn't it, that Jamie wants so badly to prove that he is relevant. But not the way you.might think, by bragging about his dad's inventions which our narrator is finding interesting. Instead it is a comic book, and one that the narrator finds repulsive. He has to be coaxed to turn on The Tube, which was what he used to get his guest to visit in the first place. Clearly Jamie was oblivious to the real significance of the The Tube as a dimensional portal! This is how kids get into trouble all the time. Trying to impress each other with something they know is out of bounds, like a gun that parents have 'hidden'! Jamie just didn't see the potential for danger when he started roughhousing with the pillows. He just wanted to get his status back as the cool kid! Therein lies the begining of the horror I believe. So very real Shaina!
What a cliffhanger, Shaina. Fantastic. Pulled along by this, much like the first. Sorry it's taken me a while to get here. Working my way through a backlog :)
You describe your characters and situations with ease, plus the flash-forwards sprinkle a real ominous threat. Love it.
Frank you always pull such great observations about characters. When I write I’m too close to it to have this type of realization but it’s true! Kids never see their parents through the lens of their work. So Jamie is bored by David’s fascination. This was fun to read.
Good read! Your ability to inhabit your characters is really something. I never got into Tales From the Crypt comics (to young), but I loved the HBO series and was bitterly disappointed when I went looking for it recently only to learn that HBO (I will never call it MAX) no longer owns the rights. Apparently no one does. No one who can stream it in any case.
Ironic isn't it, that Jamie wants so badly to prove that he is relevant. But not the way you.might think, by bragging about his dad's inventions which our narrator is finding interesting. Instead it is a comic book, and one that the narrator finds repulsive. He has to be coaxed to turn on The Tube, which was what he used to get his guest to visit in the first place. Clearly Jamie was oblivious to the real significance of the The Tube as a dimensional portal! This is how kids get into trouble all the time. Trying to impress each other with something they know is out of bounds, like a gun that parents have 'hidden'! Jamie just didn't see the potential for danger when he started roughhousing with the pillows. He just wanted to get his status back as the cool kid! Therein lies the begining of the horror I believe. So very real Shaina!
What a cliffhanger, Shaina. Fantastic. Pulled along by this, much like the first. Sorry it's taken me a while to get here. Working my way through a backlog :)
You describe your characters and situations with ease, plus the flash-forwards sprinkle a real ominous threat. Love it.
Frank you always pull such great observations about characters. When I write I’m too close to it to have this type of realization but it’s true! Kids never see their parents through the lens of their work. So Jamie is bored by David’s fascination. This was fun to read.