![]() ![]() Geary uses the crimes to articulate qualities about their era, which deepens the pleasures of the comics. Even after their reign of profitable terror is ended, mysteries remain, and Geary spends a good half of the book examining the rumors and theory that swirled around the crimes. Unwary travelers check in to the Benders’ grocery and restaurant, never to be seen again. In this case, his subject is a murderous family of Kansas settlers who set up shop in a relatively bustling byway. But the chapters of history Geary chooses are so engrossingly grisly that it’s hard to imagine how they wouldn’t make a good comic. I know it can’t be the books are meticulously researched and wonderfully drawn. I do find them kind of difficult to review, and I think that’s because Geary makes what he does seem so effortless. The Saga of the Bloody Benders is the latest, and it upholds the excellent standard that Geary has set. I’m so crazy about Rick Geary’s Treasury of Victorian Murder series (NBM). ![]()
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