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Most of the relevant text from Abhay Khosla's review for CASANOVA 11:
Pick up issue #11 of Casanova, on stands this week-- dude, there it is again:
The issue mirrors #2 of the last series: a character meets his/her literary forbearer, gets naked with them, and— Ha-Ha— kills them. Characters violently reject the future that genre and convention would create for them. Inside the narrative, time is echoing for the characters, and outside the narrative, the book is echoing itself for the readers. I guess Hermetics might mutter something about “as above, so below” or whatever, but I don’t know any Hermetics. Oh, there’s more regret this time than last time around. It's a bummer in #11.
Still: all in the context of an arc where the title character has disappeared from the narrative of his own book. The other characters try to fuck and kill their way through the normal spy-whatever without him, but four issues later, it’s not really working out so hot, is it? When any of the characters stop and pause, doubt floods in. If this arc is about gluttony, the characters are all in that gap between gluttony and pleasure.
Question for you: Is Zephyr the “bad guy” for wanting and doing the same things Casanova did in Vol. 1, i.e. to kill her progenitors, deny her father, escape into a new family, escape from a comic book that’s not quite about her? Are Cass’s friends the “good guys” for wanting to drag Casanova back into their world of empty genre thrills, even after all it got him was a trip to the hospital? Which side are you on?
It's worth reading the whole, he wigs out a bit about transitions, I think, in comics. He highlights the parallels between Eleven and Two (11 and II!) with Cass encountering Winston Heath. I'm curious about how people react to his thoughts regarding Zephyr Quinn -- is she the bad girl still, or has something else happened? The comic's tragically never going to be about her, and I like how he talks about her wanting to escape the narrative (having returned to it, of course, after her exit to Coldheart Island beyond the veil -- we still haven't got the story about that yet). |
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