Mike Dringenberg inks Kieth throughout with a heavy hand, blotting out huge sections of black to lend both depth and a gothic sensibility to the page.įrom the sixth issue onwards, Mike Dringenberg swaps his pen for a pencil. It is this intricate and alienating style that carries the more horrifying elements of Gaiman's script. His characters are craggy and scowling, with furrowed brows and sunken eyes.
Kieth often frames the scene with ornate borders to match the antiquity of the series' protagonist and shapes his panels into bubbles looking outwards into a distorted world. There's an independent, punky feel to these early issues a scrappy aesthetic not usually seen in a premium series. And yet his scratchy work only enhances the mental agony that Gaiman describes. Sam Kieth's pencils are imperfect, wildly varying in model, and often with technically incorrect perspective or scale. That otherworldliness is brought home by the two pencillers at work on these eight issues. (Image credit: Sam Kieth/Mike Dringenberg/Daniel Vozzo (DC))
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