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The Tomb

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It is basically a B&W comic book.
Its like a cross between a female Indiana Jones and a ghost story.
I liked it.

The tomb written by the team of Nunzio Defilippis and Christina Weir and illustrated by Christopher J. Mitten is an adventure story combining a haunted house with Indiana Jones.

Jessica Parrish, an archeologist, currently unemployed for trying to do the right thing and being caught by the wrong people, is contacted to help look into a "haunted" mansion into which at least two people have disappeared. The reason she's asked to do this, and the reason she takes the job, is because the mansion used to belong to Mathais Fowler, the "missing" man from the famous cursed expediton to King Tut's Tomb in 1922.

She is accompanied by a former student of hers, a former colleague, a reporter and his assistant, and the current owner of the mansion, a US Senator. Together they encounter deadly booby traps and ghosts as they search the house, which is made up to look like an ancient Egyptian tomb. And, predictably, the Senator knows more about the curse of the mansion he bought than he's letting on.

The black-and white artwork is lacking in value ranges and rendering, and at times is difficult to read what's happening in some of the panels. Some of the characters are visually distinct from each other, but others can be hard to tell apart at times. But overall it holds together.

The story is fun, though predictable. The artwork is good, but would have been better with tonal values or colors. All in all, I'd say this is as entertaining as any haunted house movie.