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jeremyhornik's review
4.0
Really terrific comics. They're basically about creation, sex, responsibility, and other weighty stuff, but the stories are filled with little bursts of aesthetic/fantasy/sci-fi type pleasures.
The book is basically divided into four parts. In the first, a wirehead is torn to shreds in a particularly amazing dreamworld, leading to strange hallucinations in the real world. In the second, a temple girl who goes to college has a strange love triangle with two of her professors, one of whom is a kind of bird thing, and the other is a blind grouch with mechanical bird legs. The third is about the kidnapping and death of a rich couple's child and the tribe that lives on his enormous estate. The fourth is about the bad relationships of a bad boy, who is a 'sin eater' of that tribe.
The drawing style is not everything I'd hope for. But combined with the writing, it creates a world that is completely unlike anything I can think of. It feels like a folk tale that's set in a science-fictionish universe.
The book is basically divided into four parts. In the first, a wirehead is torn to shreds in a particularly amazing dreamworld, leading to strange hallucinations in the real world. In the second, a temple girl who goes to college has a strange love triangle with two of her professors, one of whom is a kind of bird thing, and the other is a blind grouch with mechanical bird legs. The third is about the kidnapping and death of a rich couple's child and the tribe that lives on his enormous estate. The fourth is about the bad relationships of a bad boy, who is a 'sin eater' of that tribe.
The drawing style is not everything I'd hope for. But combined with the writing, it creates a world that is completely unlike anything I can think of. It feels like a folk tale that's set in a science-fictionish universe.
crowyhead's review
4.0
I didn't find this *quite* as satisfying as the first Finder collection, possibly because I found the intertwined Grosvenor storylines in the first one so satisfying. I enjoyed it hugely, all the same.
tangleroot_eli's review
3.0
Reading Finder is such a trip. Even when I read all the end notes, I'm never sure I entirely know what's going on. And that's pretty cool.
I just couldn't get into this library the way I did the first one. Part of it is that the work was collected in 2011, and much of it was written well before that, some back to 2003, I believe. And some of it just doesn't age well. Or rather, my perspective has shifted so much since 2003 that some things I might have overlooked or even found "charmingly abrasive" then just stick in my craw now. Eh. It happens.
I just couldn't get into this library the way I did the first one. Part of it is that the work was collected in 2011, and much of it was written well before that, some back to 2003, I believe. And some of it just doesn't age well. Or rather, my perspective has shifted so much since 2003 that some things I might have overlooked or even found "charmingly abrasive" then just stick in my craw now. Eh. It happens.
noysh's review
5.0
The Finder books contain some of the most authentic and multi-faceted stories that I've run across in any form of narrative. There's a life ant depth to these characters and their circumstances that defies the genre fiction that they inhabit. This is the good stuff.
erat's review
3.0
Not bad, but not great either. I think I'm done with Finder books, at least for now.
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