Bill Harms

The issues of Dynamite Entertainment's graphic novel adaptation of Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris was reprinted in hardcover and three softcover books. I have the softcovers. This is a review of part one.

Harper Connelly and her stepbrother, Tolliver Lang, make a living using the gift Harper gained when she was struck by lightning when she was 15. She can feel corpses when she gets near them, so she gets hired to find missing persons. What helps with the plot of Harper Connelly mysteries is that Harper can see how a person died, but if it was murder, she can't see who did it. Tolliver, who saved her life when the lightning strike stopped her heart, is Harper's manager.

The opening is a flashback to an incident in Great Falls, Montana, where Tolliver is arrested for physically attacking a man who threw a rock that hit Harper.in the head.

It's now a year later, and Harper has been called to find a missing girl in the small town of Sarne, Arkansas. The client has changed her mind, so Harper and Tolliver drive away from the sheriff's office. Harper finds a corpse and phones it in. She's right. This gets the client to agree to let Harper search for the missing Monteen 'Teenie" Hopkins, the girlfriend Mrs. Teague's son is accused of having murdered after his body was found. (If you feel incredulous that anyone could think a boy shot twice could have done it himself, I remember a newspaper article from decades ago in which a soldier's death was ruled a suicide despite about 20-25 knife wounds, five of which would have been fatal in themselves.)

Harper finds the girl's body. Later, Deputy Boxleitner hires Harper to read the grave of his wife, Sally, who was Teenie's older sister. Yes, she was murdered.

Harper is paid by Mrs. Teague's lawyer, Paul Edward. Then she and Tolliver meet with Sally and Teenie's mother, Mrs. Hopkins, before they go to the next assignment in Ashdown, Arkansas. A widow is certain her husband's first wife murdered him. Harper tells her how her husband died.

Harper and Tolliver are called back to Sarne because someone has murdered Mrs. Helen Hopkins. After they leave the Sheriff's office, the step-siblings go back to the motel where they stayed before. They have a visitor, Mary Nell Teague, sister of the murdered Dell. To be Continued...

The bonus material allows us to see a few of the pages as script, pencils, and and inks without colors.

I have read all of the books, but I must confess that actually seeing Harper's piercing was a bit of jolt.… (more)

This comic features Charlaine Harris' Harper Connelly character. Harper was struck by lightening as a teenager and since then she is able to see how people died. She can sense their ghosts and the places that they've died and the method of death. Harper can't always see who killed them but she can tell if they were murdered. Harper travels with her stepbrother, Tolliver, who works as her manager.

I enjoy this character more than I do the Sookie Stackhouse character. I liked this comic a lot; although I did feel that the story was a bit short and I could've used more of it. I felt that it was well drawn but it did load a bit slowly on my nook.… (more)

Quite interesting. I gave up on the Sookie Stackhouse series years ago, and was never able to get into any of Harris's other works. But maybe I would like them more in graphic novel form. Her writing does have a pulpy element to it that I think lends well to the medium.

I'm not a fan of this art style, but it fit in well enough with the story.



There were the usual throw in's of dark humor that Harris is so good at.



Overall, I liked this book without having any knowledge of the series itself. Wish the Humble Bundle I got it in had the other two parts as well.… (more)