This gory space Odyssey ends the only way it can, with a final fight that pits our antihero and avatar of destruction against the system that shaped him but couldn’t break him. Johnny Ryan’s filthy, satirical graphic novel series, which has been adapted into animation, was a notable mention in The Best American Comics 2011, has been turned into action figures and skate decks and adapted into multiple languages around the world, finally concludes! This extra-length final volume is four years in the making and delivers on every front! Black & white illustrations throughout.
HotFingersClub wrote:
Manuele Fior – 5,000 km Per Second
This is really fantastic. In linked vignettes spanning about thirty years, we see the prelude to a brief relationship between two Italian teenagers, and then decades’ worth of minor fallout as they move on, move away and occasionally think about one another. There are a lot of similarities here to thread favourite Eleanor Davis, especially in the colourful, simple, expressive art, although I think Fior has slightly more rigidity to his stuff in a way that makes it perhaps more prosaic but also grants a rich and distinctive atmosphere to the settings. Italy, Egypt and Norway are all completely distinct but equally gorgeous. This is really worth seeking out and would absolutely be pick of the week in any other week.
5/5
HotFingersClub wrote:Jonathan Case – Dear Creature
This is the debut graphic novel by the guy who went on to produce The New Deal and provide the gorgeous art for Doom Patrol, and it’s recognisably a first book. The art is already pretty great, although sometimes suffers from intelligibility issues where the shadows are on the verge of overwhelming the detail. The story is wacky: a giggly deep sea fish man who preys on hormonal lovers comes across a stash of Shakespeare plays in bottles and ventures in the surface world, speaking in Shakespearian iambic pentameter, where he falls in love with a middle-aged agoraphobic woman living on a boat. Maybe it’s being reprinted to coincide with Shape of Water fever? That only just occurred to me. For me, it was not as charming as it needed to be, perhaps a three way disconnect between the lighthearted tone, the dark and claustrophobic art, and the lack of any real good jokes.
HotFingersClub wrote:Correction: Nick Derington is the artist on Doom Patrol. Jonathan Case did Batman '66 and Green River Killer, both of which also look great
Melville wrote:HotFingersClub wrote:Correction: Nick Derington is the artist on Doom Patrol. Jonathan Case did Batman '66 and Green River Killer, both of which also look great
Green River Killer is pretty meh. (I'm assuming, perhaps wrongly, that you haven't read it.)
sevenarts wrote:
Why Art? by Eleanor Davis
Davis' new book starts as a deadpan, parodic art textbook, with short epigrams and questions accompanying minimalist illustrations floating in white space. Gradually, what starts as a series of examples in the text becomes a fully populated fantasy world and then a narrative seems to take over, almost in spite of itself. This is witty as hell, subtly funny and silly while also not so subtly making some serious attempts at answering the question posed by the book's title ...
HotFingersClub wrote:Not to presume you've read or enjoyed them, but how about The Making Of by Brecht Evens or Brech Vandenbroucke's White Cube?
HotFingersClub wrote:John Hankiewicz - Education
Think I'm probably a little slow for this. Some of the formalist elements reminded me of the Samplerman mini from last year that I loved (like above, the train headlight becoming the dog's head in the next panel), but that had an explosive sense of fun, whereas this is very dry, formal in tone as well as style.
HotFingersClub wrote:Really looking forward to that issue of Frontier, the .cbr of which is currently waiting in my comics folder.
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