I think I'm just not much of a [a:Richard Sala|224666|Richard Sala|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1416201709p2/224666.jpg] fan. [b:Peculia|808944|Peculia|Richard Sala|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1348273466s/808944.jpg|794885] seems to me to be more of a niche read; it's a well-done book but hard to enjoy if it's not your niche. I didn't enjoy/appreciate the way women were depicted throughout the book, either. ( )

As seems to be typical with Richard Sala's work, Peculia follows an idiosyncratic logic that is both baffling and entertaining, and invokes a very unique sense of humor, horror, and noir all at the same time. Although I am still in the process of really warming to Sala's work, his draftsmanship is exquisite (especially when he draws partially-clothed women!), and if his plot lines and dialog are a little sketchy at times, it still all seems to work in service of the wonderfully stylistic drawings that make Sala's work instantly recognizable in any context. ( )

By the end of this volume, I was totally enthralled by this charming group of misfits, both villainous and heroic.

http://sycoraxpine.blogspot.com/2006/06/more-graphic-novelishness.html ( )