Proctor Valley Road #3 Review

Writer: Alex Child and Grant Morrison / Artist: Naomi Franquiz / Boom! Studios The opening page of Proctor Valley Road #3 opens with this perfect encapsulation of the characters. Each of the main cast are postured perfectly conveying their personality and demeanor as their principal berates them. From the start, Child and Morrison capture the all too familiar dialog of high school as Franquiz’s art, Bonvillain’s colors, and Campbell’s letters let the words flourish on the page. Proctor Valley Road continues to fill a must wanted niche in camp period horror, and the issue only confirms what we already know about the 70’s: the hypothetical safety of a group of boys outweighs the actual legitimate concerns of a group of girls. After multiple supernatural encounters, our cadre finally enter into the investigative portion of every good horror story only to discover that research is a difficult endeavor. We get to see old school newspaper readers in the library, and an enigmatic librarian who manages to fill in the blanks. This venture from Morrison and Child is very tight, and the exposition of the unknown is interlaced with depictions of the familiar, such as August dealing with her mother having a new boyfriend. This type of back and forth, give and take, results in a well-balanced story that also gives Franquiz and Bonvillain ample opportunity to flex and distinguish scenes with the lighting and angles.

I adore the foreboding chapter title. I adore how quickly everything mo…