Shea Hennum, The Comics Journal:
“The morbid and the erotic are made to touch one another, and at points the character’s come to resemble one another in this furious display of violence. By the time we arrive at the book’s final page, neither character we started the story with remains. That is not to say that both character’s die, but that the living goes on living fundamentally changed by their experiences in the castle. We are faced, then, with the fact of trauma, of violence, of pain, of mourning, of loss. We are faced with the changes they bring, the ways in which these experiences erode the cliff faces and beachheads of our bodies and our minds, the crevasses and crannies they add, the chunks they wear away and chip off. It is this change—the fact of this change—rather than a laying of blame that beats as the heart of When I Arrived at the Castle.”
Read the full review on The Comics Journal‘s website here!
**from its earlier publication**
