Reply With QuoteSaw this, didn't realize it was an ARG book.
Next time I'm in the shop, I'll pick it up.
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This week we are reading: The Boy Who Made Silence #1 by Joshua Hagler (AAM Markosia, 03/19)
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Adrian B AWESOME - 9
In two weeks we are reading: Little Things: A Memoir in Slices by Jeffrey Brown (Touchstone, 04/02)
This week's companion thread: BB Review Group week 176 - Transhuman #1 by Jonathan Hickman & JM Ringuet (Image, 03/26)
Upcoming: The Education of Hopey Glass HC by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics, 03/26), The Arrival HC by Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 09/12/07), True Story, Swear to God Archives Vol. 1 by Tom Beland (Image), Papercutter #6 ed. by Alec Longstreth (Tugboat Press, Oct 2007), Skim HC by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood Books), Skyscrapers of the Midwest HC by Joshua W. Cotter (Adhouse Books), The Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw (Fantagraphics), Red Colored Elegy HC by Seiichi Hayashi (Drawn & Quarterly), George Sprott (1894-1975) by Seth (The New York Times/The Funny Pages, 09/17/06 - 03/25/07), Kramers Ergot 7 ed. by Sammy Harkham (Buenaventura Press),...
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Last edited by Andreas; 12-05-2008 at 01:32 PM.
Saw this, didn't realize it was an ARG book.
Next time I'm in the shop, I'll pick it up.
Originally Posted by joepineapples
I give it a 9. Pretty great stuff here. High concept plot along with even more high concept art. Hagler's a hell of a talent and he'll be around for a very long time. He feels like the next step in the artistic style created by Dave McKean and David Mack, which is saying a lot. I like the weird oversized format. It allows the art to wash over the reader better. It is a bit confusing in the beginning of exactly what is happening and why, but it is more fleshed out in later issues, so that's not a complaint.
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