In 2012, Jack and Patience are poor but in love and about to have a baby.
It just wasn't the book to change my mind about whether dan clowes is the graphic novelist for me.
that kind of enthusiastic response from someone who doesn't read a ton was enough to make me willing to give clowes another shot since if the story is strong, i don't need to be into the art.Īnd even though i'm still medium on the book, i really do enjoy being surprised, and i did not anticipate that a book with this starting pointĪnd i didn't hate the art - some of it hit my smalltown sad people buttons i had no intention of reading this - i'm not a fan of clowes' drawing style, and i've only ever read Ghost World, to which my reaction was 'meh.'īut i had picked this up for connor and he soon pushed it right back at me, declaring that he had 'accidentally' read it he had meant to just check out the first couple of pages and before he knew it, he'd finished the whole thing and he thought i should read it, too. I will say it's pleasantly unpredictable. The two books use different SF concepts to tell their stories, but they're similar enough that i was all, "didn't i just.?" once this one started trotting off into that direction. this one is easier on my brain because it doesn't actually try to explain the science and also there are pictures for me to look at. I may have done myself a disservice by reading Dark Matter immediately before reading this book.īoth are stories in which a man who loses a beloved woman tries to get her back through science fiction-y means and whose mistakes along the way have horrifying personal consequences i only partially understand. Congratulations! semifinalist in goodreads' best graphic novels & comics category 2016!
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