I struggle to imagine the average kid today being able to connect to the characters or dialogue. The artwork was nice and the storytelling is decent, but the thing that surprised me the most about this adaptation is how aged the dialogue feels! Wait Till Helen Comes is a book that released in the 80s originally, so I assumed the adaptation would be modernized a bit (as is the case with most graphic adaptations I've read of older kids' books), but that wasn't the case here. I grew up on Mary Downing Hahn's books and loved them as a kid, so I had to give this adaptation a try! The new generation of horror fans will love this. It caught everything so perfectly and paired with great illustrations made it well worth the read. The graphic novel adaptation was a great addition to the ghostly horror tales of Hahn. My love of cemeteries is still going strong. Now as an adult I'm glad that none of that has happened. There was something about going on an adventure with a spirit just as Heather did that always made me excited to visit the graves in a cemetery. This story made me fascinated with cemeteries more than I already was.
I wanted to slap on a bracelet, put a scrunchie in my hair, grab some dunkaroos, and a squeezit and read this with all the lights out. When I saw that they turned a classic ghostly tale into a graphic novel, I was ready to travel back in time. That these monsters lurking in the dark should be afraid of me. I was a Goosebumps, ghost, horror-loving kid who thought that they weren't afraid of anything. I remember reading this novel when I was a kid. "Your mother is a witch and she makes daddy unhappy. It seems as though things can't get any worse-but they do. But Molly isn't so certain, especially when Heather threatens that Helen is going to come for them and make them sorry. Michael doesn't believe in ghosts and thinks their new little sister is just looking for more attention. She claims she can talk to a ghost named Helen, and her behavior gets even stranger. Then, Heather starts playing in the graveyard behind their new house.
They know she's trying to drive a wedge between her father and their mother so she can have her father all to herself-and it seems to be working. She lies and tattles and misbehaves, and somehow they always get the blame. But Heather only wants to make trouble for them. When their mom remarries, Molly and her brother, Michael, try to make friends with their new stepsister, Heather. In this graphic novel adaptation of master horror storyteller Mary Downing Hahn's spookiest and most popular tale, two siblings must save their stepsister from the clutches of a vengeful ghost.
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