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A review by jeremyhornik
Finder Library Volume 2 by Carla Speed McNeil
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.