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I heard there was a third issue by a new artist after Sienkiewicz supposedly found the job too hard and dropped the project. I can't remember who it was now, though I'm sure it is easily found on Google. Anyway, I understood that this mysterious part 3 had actually been released, but I've never seen it myself.
That this series never reached anything like completion is one of the small tragedies of recent comic book history. It had a great deal of promise in its playful riffing on everyday (Northampton, anyway) turns of speech -- from memory, not having read it in years, I can recall "you don't think we should use language?", "a genie in a peach" and the "Tt" mouth-clucking punctuation, which could have become a lingustic motif equivalent to LoEG's "aheh" and Watchmen's "hurn".
Great b/w art, though a bit over-literal perhaps. I admire the talent that turns Northampton train station into a photo-realistic frame, but, you know...what does that frame tell me apart from that Sienkiewicz is really good at painting copies of Moore's snapshots? They might as well stick in the photograph and have the artist just swirl a bit of grey paint over the top. Again, I vividly remember a whole-page splash of a coffee cup seen from above, cream swirling in. Odd shifts into Stray Toasters savage cartoony madness.
The plot seemed to be going nowhere slowly, but still I would really like to know what Moore planned with it. |
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