Rating: 3/5
Wytches is about a world where witches are real, but not the way we normally think about them. The women with pointy hats and dancing naked in the woods are simply worshipers of the real deal. These are monsters that will grant any wish as long as someone is pledged to them.
There is a slow development into this though. We start out with the Rook family, who recently moved to Litchfield, NH due to an incident with the daughter and a classmate. This starts the play on who the witches are, which isn't fully revealed until much later. The characters are really well done, from the Rooks to the inhabitants to Litchfield and beyond. The creators show a lot of their lives and build up suspense to the creepy bits.
The art plays into this quite a bit too. I had a problem with the paint splashes on a lot of the pages. Rather than adding to the creepy factor, they detracted from the impact of the images. I felt like the illustrations got buried at times. I would have rated this higher if it wasn't for that.
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