Adele Blanc-Sec

I had no expectations before reading the two stories of Adele Blanc-Sec, which is always good because I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed the comics. While I only have gotten to taken a look at two of the comics,  I'm sure the structure of every edition is the same: vague and hard to understand at the beginning steadily growing into everything coming together at the end. In The Pterror Over Paris, I found it very difficult to keep track of all of the characters and the plot. I think for me at least, this was because all of the characters pretty much looked exactly the same ethnically. The difficulty in keeping track of the plot I think might have been done on purpose to be comical and dramatic; it gave the comic a crime-drama show feel. The illustrations were great, and the scenery was filled with realism, more so than the people in the comic. The panels on page 79 probably stood out the most to me; Adele is having a dream, and as she is being woken up, the antagonizer in her dream fades/morphs into her real life antagonizer. That felt really real for me, and I feel like I've never seen a dream depiction like that or one that resonated as strongly with me. Since there were so many different locations and times, the comics were heavy on the narrative boxes, but very necessary. I liked the way that the comics took place in real specific locations like the different neighborhoods in Paris. I feel that I feel more invested and intrigued when comics take place in actual locations; they're easier to connect to because they feel more real.