Sugar Skull

Sugar Skull

by Charles Burns (Jonathan Cape, 2014)

Book cover: “Sugar Skull” by Charles Burns (Jonathan Cape, 2014)

To his credit, Burns ties all the loose threads together and brings the trilogy to a coherent close. On the downside, everything weird, dark and seemingly portentous in the previous volumes is revealed to have mundane origins, rather cheapening the overall experience.

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