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Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love
Romance, mystery, and evil fill the halls of an old gothic mansion in New England. There's only one person in the world that can bring peace to this place: Boston Brand, a.k.a., Deadman! When a ghost cannot rest in the place that holds her, the DCU's authority on all things supernatural must help before all is lost!
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Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love is another retelling of Bluebeard where a man and a woman go to some big house, the man turns out to be crazy and the woman runs away from him. Other famous versions include Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. What does Deadman/Boston Brand have to do with it? Nothing really. And that’s the book!
Ugh, awful. I’d hoped Alex + Ada co-writer Sarah Vaughn’s story, with the inclusion of deceased superhero Deadman, would be good in an o ...more
Ugh, awful. I’d hoped Alex + Ada co-writer Sarah Vaughn’s story, with the inclusion of deceased superhero Deadman, would be good in an o ...more
Jun 18, 2017
Nenia *the flagrant liberal* Campbell
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Sarah Vaughn also contributed to Alex + Ada, which is a Chobits-esque romance between a human and a robot, so when I saw that she had contributed to "DEADMAN," I applied for it without really knowing what this graphic novel was about. I liked her work! I like spooky books! The cover of this book seemed spooky! (I thought it was about vampires, actually....)
I WAS WRONG LOL
DARK MANSION OF FORBIDDEN LOVE is a title that conjures up the campy p ...more
Mar 04, 2017
Gianfranco Mancini
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Recommends it for:
fans of gothic ghost/haunted houses stories and (dead) superhero comics
Read as individual issues
After enjoying Boston Brand/Deadman in the Justice League Dark animated movie, at last I've read my first comic miniseries of the character and it was really good.
Sarah Vaughn's "Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love" was for me like reading "The Haunting of Hill House" meets "Crimson Peak", "The Sixth Sense" and (dead) superhero comics, a great ghost-story filled with twists, mistery and pinches of horror and romance.
Art was really good too and just perfect for the st ...more
This was a surprisingly refreshing Gothic Ghost Story. In a way Deadman was just inserted into the story in order to make it relevant to DC, but he did play enough of a role to justify his appearance.
A couple moves into a haunted mansion and of course secrets begin to emerge. Between this comic and the movie Crimson Peak it seems gothic horror may be making a slight comeback, which really wouldn't be a bad thing. The painted art in this series was very nice and fit the story great.
If you like Go ...more
A couple moves into a haunted mansion and of course secrets begin to emerge. Between this comic and the movie Crimson Peak it seems gothic horror may be making a slight comeback, which really wouldn't be a bad thing. The painted art in this series was very nice and fit the story great.
If you like Go ...more
I just absolutely loved this. The art is beautiful, and I adored the Gothic trappings of the story. This is not going to be a book that everybody can love, though. I think if you loved Crimson Peak, you stand a much better chance of getting full enjoyment out of it. On the plus side, you don't really need to know anything at all about Deadman. Enough information about who he is and what he does is communicated over the course of the story, so this is accessible to entirely new readers. Which is
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First off the art is amazing. Never read any Deadman solo stories but this was fun to read. Not great but I'm glad I had a chance to read it.
Just learning of the central character and while I didn't miss him while the story was unfolding, won't allow my minimal knowledge to cloud my viewpoint. Great art and I like the woman lead but cannot understand the mythology, hopefully this is cleared up in the next issue.
I love romance comics! Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love serves up quite the Gothic romance. This comic is a bit of a change for the the Deadman's stories. Berenice can see ghosts, but it's not something she likes to embrace. There's a bit of a love triangle going on with her boyfriend who is always trying to write and her best friend. A very angry entity lives within the mansion. Yes, it's haunted. Berenice is in luck when Boston Brand, the Deadman shows up to help her out with unraveling the past
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A gothic horror romance starring Deadman? Think about it. A match made in Nanda Parbat, right? Shockingly, no. Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love mostly focuses around Berenice, a woman who is sensitive to, and can observe, ghosts, with Deadman underwhelmingly being used as a plot contrivance. Writer Sarah Vaughn provides a standard offering to the genre: murder, lost love,
unrecounted love (inexplicably gay love at that; a plot element tacked on seemingly to satisfy a quota and never explo ...more
unrecounted love (inexplicably gay love at that; a plot element tacked on seemingly to satisfy a quota and never explo ...more
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I LOVED THIS.
This is the kind of comic that reminds you that those lesser-known legacy characters can easily help create knew, original and exiting things.
Maybe the best way to describe this story is that it is Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak reimagined to include Deadman in modern times. If this sounds weird to you, it is. If it sounds awesome, it also is. Don’t think, however, that it’s just derivative. This is its own thing, but the inspiration is both clear and appreciated.
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I LOVED THIS.
This is the kind of comic that reminds you that those lesser-known legacy characters can easily help create knew, original and exiting things.
Maybe the best way to describe this story is that it is Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak reimagined to include Deadman in modern times. If this sounds weird to you, it is. If it sounds awesome, it also is. Don’t think, however, that it’s just derivative. This is its own thing, but the inspiration is both clear and appreciated.
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Full review to come!
The artwork in this is excellent.The story starts out slow but gains momentum page by page.Has a definite mystey/horror feel to it.
Jun 08, 2017
Rick Hunter
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I'll start with the art on this one first. Lan Medina & Phil Hester are the artists on the book. I've been a fan of Medina's since I picked up the first volume of Fables. The art really fits the gothic romance tone of the story. A major reason that the art does match the tone of the story so well is because of colorist Jose Villarrubia. The main setting for the book is an old house that was built in the 1800's. The house design itself, what little we see of it anyway, gives off a gothic feel
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I went into Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love completely blind. I had never heard of the character Deadman/Boston Brand before. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything by either the writer or illustrator for this book. So, yeah, completely unfamiliar with all aspects of it.
The art for Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love was simple yet effective. Very straightforwardly illustrated for the most part. It served to make Deadman himself stand out that much more. The color choices went along w ...more
The art for Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love was simple yet effective. Very straightforwardly illustrated for the most part. It served to make Deadman himself stand out that much more. The color choices went along w ...more
Deadman: The Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love is a graphic novel that begins with Berenice, a woman that can see ghosts and apparitions. She has moved into the old mansion her boyfriend Nathan had inherited. In the beginning of the story, she admits that ever since they moved in, strange things have been happening. And now she confirms that a ghost that’s very attached to the human world is basically trapped in the mansion.
The story was okay. In the beginning, I was a bit confused with a couple of ...more
The story was okay. In the beginning, I was a bit confused with a couple of ...more
Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love had all the spooky feels and a manor that of course every creepy story needs. There were spirits, Deadman of course, and the hair-raising thing that goes bump in the night. I like a good ghost story and this one was a very entertaining read and couldn't get enough of it. It wasn't all about Boston and his story, but about many people (and spirits) that interconnected through the supernatural.
Glencourt manor was already unnerving, then the characters were a ...more
Glencourt manor was already unnerving, then the characters were a ...more
I have to say, this was not at all what I was expecting it to be. It was something else entirely, and I found it impossible to put down. There was so much story going on in such a short span of time, yet it had a flow to it that made it feel natural. Well, as natural as a super hero ghost can be.
Berenice was a really great main character. On one hand, her quirky attitude and strength was a kick ass edition to the plot. Her lack of confidence in herself given her artistically rendered beauty see ...more
Berenice was a really great main character. On one hand, her quirky attitude and strength was a kick ass edition to the plot. Her lack of confidence in herself given her artistically rendered beauty see ...more
Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love by Sarah Vaughn is an old fashioned gothic ghost story. This tale deviants from the mainstream comic line of DC but the character of Deadman always has.
A couple enter an old empty house. It's history is one of murder and death, but soon they begin to feel another presence. An angry and dangerous entity. What they don't realize is that tagging along with them is the superhero known as Deadman. A ghost himself, Deadman feels the malevolent spirit and soon fi ...more
A couple enter an old empty house. It's history is one of murder and death, but soon they begin to feel another presence. An angry and dangerous entity. What they don't realize is that tagging along with them is the superhero known as Deadman. A ghost himself, Deadman feels the malevolent spirit and soon fi ...more
I've always been a huge Deadman fan, and the idea to merge the hero with the gothic romance genre was pretty damn good. The subtitle to this series, Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love, was also the title of a four issue gothic romance series DC published back in the early 70s. So we get a bit of romance, a bit of horror, and a bit of history here.
Writer Sarah Vaughn creates some great characters for this mystery book, and although the overall plot isn't that original, the characters really make it s ...more
Writer Sarah Vaughn creates some great characters for this mystery book, and although the overall plot isn't that original, the characters really make it s ...more
Welcome to the world of the Deadman, AKA Boston Brand. Sarah Vaughn has created a rich and interesting world in Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love.
Vaughn's characters are so interesting. They aren't your normal "heroes". They are quirky and endearing, which is what makes them so engaging. When you are outside what's considered normal, is it a gift or a curse? Vaughn explores this question, and more, in the Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love.
The art in this book is beautiful. Vaughn weaves all of the el ...more
Vaughn's characters are so interesting. They aren't your normal "heroes". They are quirky and endearing, which is what makes them so engaging. When you are outside what's considered normal, is it a gift or a curse? Vaughn explores this question, and more, in the Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love.
The art in this book is beautiful. Vaughn weaves all of the el ...more
Totally loved this. I never read any DC comics before and I never heard of Deadman, so this comic totally blew me away. I love the graphic and the coloring, they are so vibrant and vivid. I also really love the story, it's very intriguing and even though I already guessed how the story will go, I still really enjoyed to see how it all unfolded. Another thing I enjoyed is there are a lot of rep in this story, especially of non-binary character because it's the first time I ever read about one and
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I have been out of the comic book reading for a while, but recently got this selection (mine was a 3 part issue) from a local comic store and I love this! I liked the Deadman character since the 1980s, and this comic is gothic, and rich with great artwork and a great story. This is a must for horror/mystery fans and has a Dark Shadows feel to it.
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This is a really good – almost great – old school haunted house romance drama. Why then is it not great? Well, there's the title character's Matrix-styled leans-back-in-floaty-shock poses, which are far too common and just look daft, and the stupid decision to have one character inter-sexual, or whatever it's called this month – the fact it's a whole double-sized issue before it's used to explain some of the text in the first couple of pages is really poor. But the look, the drama, the mystique
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This was am entertaining gothic/romance/horror comic with a superhero ghost twist. The art did the heavy lifting of bringing a relatively straightforward story to life as a combination of retro character models mixed with moody inks and a reduced color palette that evokes gothic romance. One of the characters is a bisexual (perhaps pansexual) hapa and another one is gender non-binary, but this weren't the Thing of the story. They happened to be the reality of the characters' identities, and thos
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Deadman is one of my absolute favourite characters! The art in this book is just gorgeous. A good ghost story where Deadman comes to a house to find that a ghost trapped inside has called to him, the first time he helps the dead rather than the living.A good story made for a quick read. Doesn't take place in current "Rebirth" universe but at some unspecified time in Boston Brand's afterlife. Without going into detail, I'll just say the whole trans love story was not necessary and obviously an ag
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Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love by Sarah Vaughn et. al. is a free NetGalley e-comicbook that I read in late May.
At the very emo, very Black Sunday, very gothic Glencourt Mansion, Berenice encounters the Deadman (Boston Brand), his murdered love, Adelia, and the shadowed darkness that threatens to swallow up both the dead and the living (which is a shame, because Berenice really needs to make a choice between either Sam or Nathan). Even though the look and modern/late 60s horror style rea ...more
At the very emo, very Black Sunday, very gothic Glencourt Mansion, Berenice encounters the Deadman (Boston Brand), his murdered love, Adelia, and the shadowed darkness that threatens to swallow up both the dead and the living (which is a shame, because Berenice really needs to make a choice between either Sam or Nathan). Even though the look and modern/late 60s horror style rea ...more
The art in this volume was a plus, but the story was pretty thin. A bit predictable, considering the limited number of characters and settings. The whole thing could have been wrapped up in two Brave and the Bold issues instead of three extended premium issues in six chapters.
I received a preview copy of this book from NetGalley.
I received a preview copy of this book from NetGalley.
Take Crimson Peak and insert Deadman along with some gender politics, now you have pretty much the exact same plot as this book. I found the book yawn-inducing and unoriginal. This is the same story you hear in everything labeled Gothic Romance. Lan Medina's art was quite good though.
Received an advance copy from DC and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Received an advance copy from DC and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Boston Brand is a bit more than just a ghost. He is a ghost with a mission. But when he is drawn to Glencourt Manor and trapped, he finds he needs the help of the living to free the dead. The mystery lies with the ghost Adelia and her murder years ago. Once the reason for her death is uncovered, a way forward opens for most of the characters. An interesting haunted house tale.
Incredibly moody and captivating art, paired with a decent plot, brought down by preachy writing and fundamentally unlikable characters. It's good that DC is willing to take risks with its characters and think outside the box like this, but the script was just way too heavy-handed.
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Sarah Vaughn is an artist, writer, over-thinker. She's penciled Sparkshooter and is currently working with Jonathan Luna on Alex + Ada for Image Comics.
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