I jumped when I saw this book in NetGalley's Read Now list, up for review. Often a creator’s indie projects are better than their work-for-hire at the Big 2 – not Mr Fawkes! His self-consciously (f)arty comic is even more dismal than his terrible work at DC! No finger snaps for this rubbish! And that’s one page – out of 130!Īwful beat poetry, terrible art – it’s like an art student’s coursework! Regardless of its emotional subject matter, Fawkes’ amateurish rendering in no way “moves” me – except to close the book for good long before the end!Ĭomics like this somehow got Fawkes his writing gig at DC. The fire the electric need to tell you who I am to draw a smile “when I turn to the wheeling skies I am not afraid And the writing is shockingly bad – here’s a snippet: Character, story, time passing – the book does it all extremely poorly. The character designs are very similar, drawn in the same black and white, indistinct and ugly, clunky line. It’s a pretty terrible format choice as it’s hard to separate the individual stories when they’re all written in the same voice.
That's when we're not getting close-ups of two leaves - seriously. There’s a panel per couple every two pages so you have roughly twelve panels over two pages with the twelve stories playing out simultaneously. This interesting idea suffers from a flawed execution.Ray Fawkes’ The People Inside looks at twelve different couples in twelve different love-themed stories. The watercolor art supplies a bleeding, melted quality perfectly supporting both the amorphous nature of the story and the transformations going on within the plot. Copious swearing and vague pronouncements rarely make it clear what is happening and why, or even, sometimes, who is speaking or narrating the story. The plot is innovative and ambitious the story is extremely disorienting. The two-in-one lovers flee with the Kid to attempt to figure out what is happening to their bodies and the world at large. Another character, the Kid, has a murkier backstory, emerging somehow from the body of a sick man.
Ali and Jason are two lovers stuck in the same body, battling for consciousness in a Detroit that's dealing with a huge and upsetting transformation to its entire population. After creating the award-nominated graphic novels One Soul and The People Inside and writing superhero comics for DC and Marvel, Fawkes kicks off a new series of stand-alone graphic novels.
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