W. Maxwell Prince
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The various cover artists are the true stars. I have mixed feelings about Morazzo. I think it is just personal taste, but I don't enjoy the way they draw ordinary scenes and people, who is most of the graphic novel, but when things get weirder, incorporate the surreality of the Electric Sublime and style of famous paintings, their art comes alive! The blending of the images of famous artworks and collages are really cool.
I think the core of my issue is that this is The Matrix and Ready Player One, but for well-known classic paintings. There is also an art murder mystery, but we get so little to go on beyond references and a reveal at the end that is supposed to feel weighty, but with the nature of the storytelling here it's just another familiar face. There is action that feels forced in 'because it's a comic' with movie logic and no significance. Speaking of the Matrix, there's a pointless reference to the display weapons fight in the Merovingian's place from The Matrix Reloaded. It just feels very over eager Tarrantino stan film student.
So much manages to happen or is rushed through without every letting anything to breathe. Let's explore the Electric Blue some more, let's actually appreciate and ground the experience of being in these famous paintings with their meaning and context, and not just one beautiful spread with no narrative weight.
The handling of mental illness as something at the same time silly and something to mock and laugh at, gross and uncomfortable, and a superpower that makes you 'normal' and 'acceptable' when you use it. Fuck all the way off! I tried to find anything out about the creators and if they have any experience with mental health issues or have discussed it at all and couldn't find anything, so it seems it's just neurotypical people using us as a fun freakshow diversion. I hate it. I hate it.
It just feels like this really could have been something magical and there are some brilliant ideas here to be inspired by and do something good with. It's incredibly disappointing to see someone come so close to greatness and step on the rake of their own edgelord, shallow, low-hanging fruit approach.
I feel like I'm nowhere near this mean normally, but I got really hacked of by the ableism from the get go, but I stuck it out to see what they did with the ideas, which was. basically nothing.
I would love more than anything to see a good version of this in any medium.… (mehr)