houses of the holy

Why You Should Visit Caitlin Skaalrud's 'Houses Of The Holy'
Why You Should Visit Caitlin Skaalrud's 'Houses Of The Holy'
Why You Should Visit Caitlin Skaalrud's 'Houses Of The Holy'
As a reviewer, it's a rare gift to be handed a comicbook that's so unlike anything else you critique that it enables you to abandon your own rules; when the typical criteria of structure, character, dialogue and technique don't really apply, and you're forced to evaluate a creative work on completely different terms. I was given that gift in Caitlin Skaalrud's Houses Of The Holy from Uncivilized Books; a gift I repaid by not actually writing a review of the book for two months after I received it, and I was angry at myself pretty much the entire time. Because Houses Of The Holy might be the most dazzling and immersive book I've read in a long, long time.