![]() ![]() Humor masks the Id, hiding our suffering and basest instincts. Muir uses horror to talk about the Id and uses a cosmic futuristic setting to talk about existence. What We Do In The Shadows is satire and this is pure black comedy, specifically grotesque humor. But then people start getting murdered and they actually have to come face-to-face with what is beneath their ambition and their surface level humor.ĭo you remember that scene in What We Do In The Shadows, where Taika Waititi’s character plays music and gives his date a rose and while she’s telling him about her future ambitions he awkwardly bites her neck but he hits an artery, causing an unimaginable amount of blood to spill out everywhere even though he spread out towels everywhere? That balance of macabre and awkward hilarity is this book.īoth What We Do In The Shadows and Gideon the Ninth utilize the dark and deadpan flavor of Kiwi humor. Here’s my sell: Close corners mystery in a gothic castle but set on a planet, where necromancers and sword masters, half arrogant and half cool weirdos with gallows humor and dad jokes, must compete for God’s ultimate test. “I’m begging you here-I’ll trade you a skin mag. Trigger Warning: death, mentions cancer, and graphic violence. ![]() ![]() Review at the Alliterates: Gideon the Ninth Review ![]()
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