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Randomly stumbled into Forbidden Planet Glasgow today only to discover that they had this in.
Like a couple of other posters, I was a bit apprehensive about this one. The idea of Clowes doing a superhero story... well, lets just say I was worried it'd degrade into naff parody, something that would've been a massive and unexpected backward step from Icehaven (aka the greatest single issue comic EVER!). But this... this is the good stuff. Why was I ever worried?
On first read, this didn't have the scope that made the Icehaven issue quite so thrilling, but the way that Clowes focussed many of the narrative techniques he used last issue here was thrilling in a slightly unsettling way. So much stuff gets pushed off-panel in this comic (events, bits of dialogue, everything!), and is it just me or does this really add to the queasy nature of this story? I've got to think this through, but there's something really effective about this technique that I didn't quite managed to put my finger on first time through. More when I've given it a couple more reads... |
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