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Air - Letters from Lost Nation

In a world where it has become increasingly difficult to read interesting and innovative stories, this comic I was pleasantly surprised. Bought more for the comments great authors in the world of comics that were released and were reported on the cover, has been a most worthy first volume in what could be a very interesting series, and that in the comic flatness of the works the latter periods, where only few can soar on a quagmire of mediocrity, in my opinion deserves to be followed in its next meetings.

The protagonist of the story, Blythe, is a flight attendant what appears to be a regular airline, with the small detail that Blythe is acrophobia, that is afraid of heights. Strange thing for a person who has chosen to go to trade most of his life on aircraft in flight. At one point, appearing in his victory a strange character, who seems to change its identity as a normal person would change his shirt, and that is often found in its vicinity. With the terror alert at the highest levels, it is no wonder that it intended more than suspicion. But alongside this, Blythe and the airline they work for seem to be the subject of the attentions of a mysterious group of people, at least according to what they say, appear determined to combat the threat of terrorism with air rather hasty and violent methods. But is this really so? All are what they seem or claim to be? And what mysteries hides the airline Clearfleet, since the policy that regulates the recruitment of staff seems to be strange? Led by coded messages, feelings and dreams appearances, Blythe will prove capable of performing aerial evolutions very difficult not to fall or crash and reach its destination safe and sound (pardon the metaphor aeroplanistica!). And you know what this is would be a big step forward.

Written by G. Willow Wilson and MK designed by Parker, the series "Air" has demonstrated an uncommon depth narrative for the current comics scene, moving with the right balance between fantasy and realism, between social satire and action, between humor and drama, a blend of elements that have earned the comments of appreciation from authors like Neil Gaiman, Brian Wood, Gail Simone, Brian Azzarello and many others including authors of fiction and magazines, as well as numerous nominations for Eisner Awards. Expect to see whether the authors are able to maintain this quality fiction and artwork that expressed in the first volume. But to be honest, for my small and not at all professional opinion, there are all the premises.

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Based on the official chronicles, I just opened another round Now I have to also retrieve all the adventures of Hap and Leonard. I made them know that a friend gave me, along with others, this book during my last birthday, telling me that maybe it's their best story. And as usual, when I read something I like, and has a following, they are almost forced to read the rest. Moreover, beyond the history of which I will soon, I was struck by the introduction written by the author in which he said that Hap and Leonard had come to visit him once he was writing a story and then abandoned her until, some time later, they returned to urge their history, so he was almost compelled to write this novel. I was very impressed This concept of the character of the need to be told, his urgent request for the author to see their stories written. Characters so real and alive to be reduced to a mere typist, the author of their first-person narrative. Knowing how to get in touch with your character to the point where I think makes him a person is a quality that only the great writers and show that Joe R. Lansdale has shown me.

Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are virtually two sides of same coin. One white and one black, one straight and one gay, immersed in the deep southern America where these features will make it different, depending upon the reference where you are. In a neighborhood of blacks, the other is white. Hap and Leonard, but they also have much in common. A difficult past, some time behind bars, an uncertain present nell'arrabattarsi lived with some work recently, a future that is not even considered in terms of programming. They both have some debt of friendship to the other, both when it comes to beating your hands do not pull back, both highly intelligent, despite the notion that being disadvantaged is to be stupid because the intelligent always find ways to make money. One day, however, Leonard's uncle dies and leaves an old grandson run-down and a large sum of money. Because of the very conflictual relationship with his uncle who was Chester, Leonard decides to stay at his house to fix it, and so discovers the rest of his legacy. In fact, there are all reasons for thinking that Uncle Chester has lost his way a lot 'of its wheels, because that leaves a lot of expired gift certificates, a room full of old newspapers, a book of Dracula closed a safe deposit box. And with a chest buried in the skeleton of a child. Uncle Chester has killed a child? He was a pedophile? Leonard does not believe it one bit, 'even assuming that the retirement was a bit' senile. Hap is a bit 'of reasoning logical person to be less involved, but both understand that there is something underneath. And they want to see clearly. Especially if your neighborhood has a history of missing children, all sons of no one, and there is an area that someone thinks they are a manifestation of sin and must be 'removed'.

Mixing a lot 'of mystery, some fight, some' healthy American racism, beers, cops and lawyers sensual, Lansdale sketches out a gripping storyline and fun. Without delay and without rhetoric paints a piece of America that we have always known through the film and that is very hard to describe in an effective and simple at the same time. The language of truth, one of the streets, bars and fights, and that some 'philosophical melancholy and for certain periods of life are mixed to perfection in the first-person narration of Hap. Now we have to read all the other adventures of Hap Collins and Leonard Pine.

- Minorities are one thing. The other choices. Go a little 'to see how many Eastern live on public assistance. You will not find many.
- Go a little 'to see how many of the East have ancestors who were owned by whites, and were sold as slaves. Frankly, Leonard, I think here it will take a quote from the Bible. Do not judge unless ye be judged . More or less.
- Yeah. Well, 'I have a quote too. If you decide to take it in the ass, takes it in ass .
- What is the Bible?
- The Bible of Leonard.

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The [the] imperfect visions

I like the classic comics, and this is nothing new. Who attends these pages you will notice that I was never particularly interested in the products underground, or highly conceptual, or hyper-realists on the other side. For me, the imagination, the fantastic, the unreal are essential ingredients of a work in comics, and even though I appreciated in the past things like "Maus" or "Man faber", my favorite genres are still others. Then you ask: "What the hell are you doing with a comic Makkox?". The answer is multifaceted and perhaps sound a bit 'inconsistent with what I have said so far, but to be honest, I do not give anything.

me start with the fact that titles are very important when choosing something, at least capture the attention in the initial moment, and those in brackets at the jail "to" creating a double degree - Divisions or visions? - I was very impressed. Then I read a bit 'of past cartoons around the web, and I were liked. Third, some 'time ago I caught a wave off, in which his friend Salvatore, talking to someone that I can not remember who he was, took up this volume, and said: "This, for now, is my favorite author ". In short, there were enough reasons to read this book. The coup de grace to the indecision gave the news that the author would come to comics for autographs, pictures, chat and sfincione (which was then also added caponata), so I have had no grounds to give up. Here's how "The [of] imperfect visions" is over in my library.

But now I speaking of comics, and this is where things get complicated. Mark Dambrosio (Makkox for friends), by his own admission, is taken very cue from television, and in particular from the television series. In fact, I do not know if this 'thing' can be defined as a real comic. The introduction of Recchioni us that actually represents a collection of tables, linked by a single narrative thread, which continues a series started on the web and mysteriously stopped. However, the story is enjoyable even when entering the room starts the second half. There caliamo now in very real and complicated story of Peter, Robert, and Mirella Sveva, characters, or maybe people who devised it is difficult to understand how and what real (this may not even know the proper Marco ...). telegraphic storytelling, incisive, the constant scene changes, the constant arrival of people who do not know and that appear as if everyone knew who they are, all contribute to maintaining the attention and forces them to turn the table after table, focusing on each right the time to admire the traits and watercolors that give a beautiful contrast between the unreal and extreme graphic narrative realism.

But the strength of the book, in my opinion, is the second p art the chapter divisions interrupted, "where the author really makes his work a fiction, with deleted scenes in which the characters become real actors who comment on how the series is over, that the death of the writer. A charge enviable narrative that Makkox expressed in these last twelve tables. Even for these, it is worthwhile to read this. And then, I also made the drawing on the paper!

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All Star Superman

I've never been and I do not think I'll ever be a fan of Superman, but there is no doubt a milestone in the history of comics and superheroes. I read some stories of the man of steel more than anything to have a complete picture of the universe DC, which certainly plays a starring role and often appears at events related to other characters. You may wonder why I've decided to buy a book containing a series and miniseries out continuty out, with no particular attachment to the past or current events or legends. Well, I'll be honest, the only reason the original is represented by the creative team. Grant Morrison for me is part of a trinity of comics inviolable, even with its ups and downs narrative (the others are Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman). Without taking anything away from other high-profile authors, both past and present American comics scene, they always manage to find these three reasons that narrative can not help but admire and envy. When that happens Morrison joins Frank Quitely, it takes even more mandatory in nature, because although my taste for design is more tied to a classic cartoon (a style Kubert brothers, so to speak), and tables Quitely can say anything but classic, the two together make a perfect match from all points of view. It will be a question of geography (both Scottish, both Glasgow), I do not know, the fact is that already on the X-Men, and now in this mini-series Superman, as well as other perhaps lesser-known works such as "Flex Mentallo" and "We3," the two together buy a storytelling smooth and engaging despite differ greatly, the first narrative, the second graph, by tradition.

However, it was enough to get through the introduction s ospettare that there must be something more. This suspicion arose when I read that a certain Mark Waid, a signatory of this introduction, claimed to have read every Superman story ever written and he had never read anything better. Whereas the proper Mark has almost marked his entire life to the DC Universe shots of stories, I believe that his sentence is far more of an opinion. Then I read it. And I can say that this is a volume that can not fail in library of any fan of the man of steel. As usual, nothing is easy with Grant Morrison, so I would not recommend this story to lovers of reading linear, or with plenty of space for action, pure and simple. Here we are dealing with a history of subtle and complex, and sometimes we seem not to understand certain phrases, some banter, the feeling we may have missed a page. It is a story that should read, metabolized, and then re-read with great attention to the smallest details, both narrative and graphics, which are intertwined past the physical limit of the current chapter, so that a sentence of the first pages can be understood only after read the last two. Whole History is full of these devices, that have graced it from the point of view of the overall message. I feel I can say, not fond of the hero in question, that this story explains everyone who is Superman, what it represents for the world and what the world is for him. Read it. And do not worry if Superman is dying. In the words of Lois Lane in the last chapter, when he has finished doing what he is doing, Superman returns.

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