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Good golly, but that was good stuff. Well worth every penny. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, I do wonder how many average comics readers are aware of just how good the art in this book is, especially when the photorealistic stuff edges so close to Alex Ross territory, which is very popular indeedy. And it’s not as if the story’s bad either, he understated.
Anyway. I’m actually quite enjoying the pace and sense of impending end to this, and in a way the end (whatever form it may take) might come as something of a shame – I feel this story’s shaped a bit like the end of the Beatles track ‘A Day in the Life’, where I always enjoy the crescendo bit more than the end. What a questionable analogy. Ah well.
On specifics : on the final two-page spread, as well as Bush Jr, I’m guessing that’s the artist and the writer there, yes (interesting pedant notes : the layout on the artboard for the pages appears slightly different from the finished article, and it’s fun to see that Moore’s monitor refers to its depiction on the back of the recent profile book) ? And the panel which I’m guessing refers to the reader (bottom left corner) was made the more effective for me by the fact that I was holding it in just that way at the time….
Also liked the line the Doll says about reading the book, or being a character in it. Nice sense of confusion to this, which I felt gathered momentum as the issue went on.
Oh, and the semi-hidden titles were neat.
I’m almost ashamed to admit that when this series started, it was the ABC book that least grabbed me – until the first one with the hyper-reality stuff, which really got my attention. Would I be right in thinking that it’s mainly Jose Villaruba who does this over Williams’ art ? He’s listed as co-colourist, I note, with Mick Gray as assisting on the art as opposed to full-on inking. |
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