![]() ![]() It’s a bit ironic that this is the story of someone embarking on a grand project with impressive visions, but it got taken out of their hands, someone else took over and it became something else entirely, and yet this is pretty much what happened with this book and the original writers of this project. In one sense it possesses a dated almost 50/60s vibe about it and yet the issues it concerns is one that is timeless, and relatable to most readers. In many ways this seems to straddle the era of the old generation, Eisner, Kirby, Lee et al, and the new, revived and more complex experiments that really started to come to prominence throughout the 80s, Moore, Miller, Gaiman et al. ![]() The publishers are well aware of their audience, and often by adding all of these quirky and colourful extras it can be an effective way of distracting from often mediocre work elsewhere. There are no shortages of these graphic fiction/comic book reduxes out there on the market. One of the first things that becomes apparent about the art work is that it has a strange clash of retro with dated futurism to create quite an unsettling dystopia, which sets up the tone nicely. So already we see too many people involved and we haven’t even started the main body of the book yet. ![]() This has not one, not two, but three forewords/introductions in it. It’s all wrong…all wrong for people…it crushes…this city was not meant for people…” “This room…is the worst…the very shape of it. ![]()
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