“THE GOOD: Black and white art whose attention to detail is often astounding. Visual sequences that capture silent action dramatically. Overlapping storylines / parallels which are early attempts at non-linearity and which predate the storytelling technique of comics like Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles.
A brave attempt to critique history, government, dictatorships, corruption, religion and power, while mixing in the minutiae of each of these topics into the overall storyline. Sadly, though this makes author / illustrator Bryan Talbot the equivalent of comics’ Umberto Eco (master of the minutiae in literature), it doesn’t help smoothen the writing of this epic.
Still, the work is clearly groundbreaking in its graphic as well as narrative techniques, and the effort alone that it to took to conceive and execute this graphic novel is worthy of mention. I just don’t know how it will make anyone’s “Top 10 Favorite Graphic Novels of All Time” list. ”
acid42 wrote this review Tuesday, April 22 2008.
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