Kabuki Volume 2: Dreams [Paperback]

David Mack (Author, Artist)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 9, 2002

The epilogue to Kabuki: Circle of Blood, Kabuki: Dreams is a mix of Japanese mythology and a modern near death experience. A woman dies and has a vision of the afterlife in which she is visited by her dead mother. She returns to life with a new sense of resolution and purpose. The story is told with fully painted artwork.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Image Comics (December 9, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582402779
• ISBN-13: 978-1582402772
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 6.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #647,279 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Visual intensity, December 11, 2003

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wiredweird "wiredweird" (Earth, or somewhere nearby) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kabuki Dreams (VOL. 2) (Paperback)

Sanity is not always called for. This story explores one alternative. It's a dark alternative, but it's an alternative to an even darker reality.

This is another of Mack's lavish painted comics. To call it 'painted', though, is faint praise. Drawing, lettering in a few different hands, collage, painting - the visual layering and intensity are incredible. The story itself is stark, physically static the with dynamics all in Kabuki's mind. Somehow, Mack conveys and sustains that moment when even desperation fails.

Mack's images are filled with deconstructed text. My eye instinctively tries to read it all, but that would defeat the purpose of the imagery. On the other hand, ignoring it defeats the purpose of the writing. This is a book I'll come back to, to give it all the different readings it deserves.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars VIsually enthralling, February 5, 2010

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M "CultOfStrawberry" (I wait behind the wall, gnawing away at your reality) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kabuki Volume 2: Dreams (Paperback)

I'm not going to say that the pictures were by any means all perfect. There was lots of gorgeous artwork in this book, and it was a visual treat. However, some of the pictures felt rather slapped together or amateurish, and I do wish there could have been more to the story. Still, it does get better in the next book, so just consider this one as even more of a 'graphic' novel than usual.

3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars weak dream, July 5, 2006

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J. Holcomb - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kabuki Volume 2: Dreams (Paperback)

Not one of Mack's greater accomplishments. I love the artistry of his hand. The curves, the movement, the violence he displays with drawings. Real ink and paper. Towards the end of 'Dreams' he resorts to pictures of live blurry women and children's plastic dolls with Kabuki masks on black backgrounds. WHERE IS THE INK!? The real expression, not the highschool photography class. I pray his future expression is a little more from the heart and a little less from the lense.