“This is pretty amazing stuff.
The story itself takes a backseat to the art. Like, the WAY backseat. If you’re in one of those vans that hold 15 people and you’re taking a college field hockey team to a field hockey tournament (they have those for field hockey, right? East coast people, you should know that field hockey is an east coast thing), the story is in the furthest back seat of all the seats. Where I assume the field hockey team reprobate sits. The enforcer maybe who’s a little volatile but necessary (do they have enforcers in field hockey? Field enforcers?).
This isn’t because the story is bad. The story is fine. Its job is to get out of the way of the art. Because there’s a lot of it. And it’s fucking unbelievable. The level of detail really gives a lot of evidence in the case of Normal People v. People Who Say Crazy Shit Like This Is Definitely Art. It’s so violent and grotesque, and so unbelievably great. It’s so crisp that despite having like a hundred dead bodies on a page, it doesn’t look busy or confusing. It’s just hard to describe. I love it.
Don’t sleep on this one I did. Probably because a lot of comics, especially older ones, were sold with a story blurb. This one should definitely be sold on an art blurb. It’s just that good. “