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Title: Cathedral Child by Lea Hernandez ISBN: 0-9709474-5-3 Publisher: Cyberosia Pub Pub. Date: July, 2002 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $10.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Slightly scattered
Comment: Originally to be published by the now-defunct and much-missed comics publisher Eclipse, later released as part of Image Comics' "no-line," and now reprinted in one volume by Somerville-based Cyberosia, Cathedral Child is a manga-styled missive that'd reputedly the first volume in a sequence called Texas Steampunk. While there are some steampunk elements present -- a sentient cathedral that communicates via pipe organ -- I found the comic to be slightly scattered. Part lifelong romance, part mystery, and part political powerplay, the story's ideas are important, but the sequence suffers from unclear characterization and too twisted a narrative thread. Hernandez's Author's Notes are helpful, but a comic shouldn't need footnotes to be forthright. That said, the vision is viable. It's the execution that could have been cleaner.

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