from Fieldmouse Press
review from DoomRocket's Arpad Okay: "The texture of Hot House smothers, covering the page, girding the eye. The bedroom has a phantom weight, pressing down on your vision with the time John Hankiewicz has spent hand-working each surface with detail — whole panel, top to bottom, and into all four corners. Yet the setting itself is mundane: a normal house, backyard, plain and familiar rooms, domestic liminal space. The visible effort says look at me and the bare walls say there’s nothing here. The people are unembellished. Holes cut through the fog.
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"You’ve never read a comic one panel at a time like this before. Each square is a complete story beat. Every beat has a dancer striking a symbolic pose. Every pose, every single one, is drawn from a specifically considered perspective. It should be a symbolic storyboard, with the reader being led through the storyteller’s vision. Yet, the static ballet is composed so that each panel is arranged with meaning. You don’t move past it to get the message; the camera angle and the blocking are the story."
