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Doll & Creature

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So, the book has its fascinating points. There's talent aplenty here. It didn't click together here. BUT watch for more from these guys, they are bound to make magic work SOMEday.

The writer has writer a number of these bizarrely cobbled together high concept pitch books. They are actually rather good, with a strange eclectic brew of low-tech and hi-tech, mythic and realistic, a pinch from this genre, a pinch from that. He is evidently trying to tap into what he perceives as a "trend" in comics. In this case I'm guessing it had something to do with Goth culture.

But the result is so complicated it is hard to follow and since little is resolved, it is all the worse as one is never certain what the real intent was.

The art tries to simplify things with an anime (aka cartoon) style that the artists likewise perceive to be popular. Perhaps they are right. Where the #$%^@**!! is the zeit geist anyway? And then the cartoons are stroked with lustrous broadstrokes and touches of fine rendering the way an EC artist would do it. All this laboriously worked over halftones that make the art VERY VERY lovely indeed. Mike Manley is an old pro from Marvel AND DC and tho unknown has been doing major titles for--jeepers--10 years? 15? He is as good as he wants to be and here he really did John Heebink a solid, not that Heebink needed it, as he has been around the block as well, on lesser titles, but he's a good match for Manley, stroke for stroke.

Still, lovely as it is, with all that dialog, the confusing (and boring) story, the heavily worked pages tend to bog down the book.

I wish the there were about 3 panels per page...or half the amount of dialog per page.