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A review by cetian
Aama, Vol. 1: The Smell of Warm Dust by Edward Gauvin, Frederik Peeters
4.0
Frederik Peeters has his own style of sci-fi, both visually and story wise. There is a curious mix of playfulness (the robot character being "ape-oid" and not android, for instance) and classic space adventure themes, a refined sense of humour, an impressive style in his character design, somewhere between realism and an european young adult BD look and then all things alien are absolutely gorgeous.
This will be a short review for the first 3 volumes with no spoilers. The way the story develops from volume to volume makes the series worth reading: the story really advances, and a lot of things happens. The narratives inside a narrative work well. As we can see in the first few pages, the main character is trying to remember what led to the present moment. The story unfolds from the recent past to the moment that character fights to get his memory back. Aama is something I maybe should not refer to, in a review of the first volume. Let's just say it reminded me of two films ("Nausicaä of the valley of the wind" and the recent "Annihilation").
Peeters is confortable both with text+image storytelling and moments when the narrative occurs only in images, and he keeps alternating both. This is something that has other good examples, and usually occurs with a great artist that does the whole book (writes and ilustrates), like Bilal in his recent trilogy or Mœbius in his "Le Monde d'Edena". The creativity we see in Aama is both wild and very coherent, and a feast for the eyes.
This will be a short review for the first 3 volumes with no spoilers. The way the story develops from volume to volume makes the series worth reading: the story really advances, and a lot of things happens. The narratives inside a narrative work well. As we can see in the first few pages, the main character is trying to remember what led to the present moment. The story unfolds from the recent past to the moment that character fights to get his memory back. Aama is something I maybe should not refer to, in a review of the first volume. Let's just say it reminded me of two films ("Nausicaä of the valley of the wind" and the recent "Annihilation").
Peeters is confortable both with text+image storytelling and moments when the narrative occurs only in images, and he keeps alternating both. This is something that has other good examples, and usually occurs with a great artist that does the whole book (writes and ilustrates), like Bilal in his recent trilogy or Mœbius in his "Le Monde d'Edena". The creativity we see in Aama is both wild and very coherent, and a feast for the eyes.