{"id":2400,"date":"2011-06-10T19:58:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T23:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2021-09-22T16:59:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T20:59:53","slug":"house-of-mystery-vol-6-safe-as-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2400","title":{"rendered":"House of Mystery Vol 6: Safe as Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/comics\/house_of_mystery.php\">House of Mystery<\/a> Vol 6: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jQfC7K\">Safe as Houses<\/a><\/em> (2011) Matthew Sturges, Luca Rossi, Werther Dell Edera, Jose Marzain Jr<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jQfC7K\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/House-Mystery-Safe-Houses.jpg?resize=195%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8375\" \/><\/a>I was intrigued by the first volume of House of Mystery, and the subsequent volumes were also interesting, but this volume fell flat for me.<\/p>\n<p>I think the primary reason was that&#8211;for me&#8211;the best parts of these volumes were the stories told by the customers of the House of Mystery, and those stories were lacking in this volume. Instead, there were multiple threads with the recurring characters that seems (to me) to be distracting.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Vertigo<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House of Mystery Vol 6: Safe as Houses (2011) Matthew Sturges, Luca Rossi, Werther Dell Edera, Jose Marzain Jr I was intrigued by the first volume of House of Mystery, and the subsequent volumes were also interesting, but this volume fell flat for me. I think the primary reason was that&#8211;for me&#8211;the best parts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,9,291],"tags":[285,336,522],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-graphic-novels","category-paper","tag-house-of-mystery","tag-matthew-sturges","tag-vertigo-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-CI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1841,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1841","url_meta":{"origin":2400,"position":0},"title":"House of Mystery Vol 4: The Beauty of Decay","author":"Michelle","date":"July 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"House of Mystery: The Beauty of Decay (2010) Matthew Sturges, Luca Rossi, Werther Dell'Edera, Jose Marzain Jr Fig and friends are now stuck in The City in the Space Between, and no one can come up with a way out. 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