Review: Lola: A Ghost Story
Adding to the wave created by the latest H.P. Lovecraft-themed story, another young reader-friendly graphic novel hits the shelves tomorrow. Lola: A Ghost Story isn’t a ghost story per say, but rather a comforting invitation into the otherwise threatening world of life and death. The comic stumbles a few times, but it’s worth a look—and it makes a great gift for those struggling with loss.
Few people experience true encounters with the strange stuff of myths, but Lola endured her supernatural gift of recognizing demons and otherworldly signs from birth to the grave. When a boy named Jesse and his family travel to his parents’ home in the Philippine countryside to attend his grandmother Lola’s funeral, time around the farmhouse—haunted with anecdotes from the woman’s surreal life—reveals that there’s more than one extraordinary gift in the family. Paranormal exposure riddles Jesse’s everyday youth. From chats with his late cousin to hearing monsters scurrying about the woods and spying rotting corpses littering public locations, his days are filled with the unsettling.
