Customer Reviews

Scott McCloud's Zot! Book 3: Issues 16, 21-27

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Many modern comic books, movies, books, etc. present the audience with simplistic morality plays and shallow, forgetable characters. Against this backdrop Scott McCloud stands out for his artistic integrity and his ability to weave so much thought, so many aspects of the human condition, and so much entertainment into 25 odd thin black and white pages.

In trying to articulate what I like about the Zot series I constantly come back to the same idea: despite the series running for several years, the story seems to have only started, the characters have only begun to reveal themselves. This sense of richness and potentiality, entertwined with a deceptive simplicity, is a rare thing.

P.S. I would reccommend that any new readers space out the reading of each issue in this volume by at least a day. Originally, each were released 3 months apart or so, and though I waited eagerly for each issue, I also savoured the time in between. I cannot help but thinking that reading them all in one sitting could blur the story elements and reduce the overall impact.