Haunting.
Haunting is the best way to describe the double page spread that opens Tyler Boss and Martin Simmonds adaptation of Phantom of the Opera.
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While it is a stretch to qualify two entire pages as a single panel, Simmonds expertly captures the sheer terror and ethereal nature of the story with the echoing laughter of the Phantom as he acts as a puppet master over both the books female lead and the audience watching his spectacle. There are not enough words to describe the level of fear this piece of art evokes, the number of nightmares it will likely cause in the future, or daunting presence that even readers will feel as the Phantom stalks these pages and their hearts.
If there is one book that deserves to be on people’s pull lists for visuals alone, The Phantom of the Opera is that book.
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