TWO REVIEWS IN ONE DAY! and I’ve got my spring semester critique panel this afternoon! Today is a day where I will be EVALUATED folks.
Thankfully, the inimitable and estimable Brian Nicholson (@arecomicsevengood) gives my books a deep and thorough read. Let’s hope the members of my cirt panel are as insightful:
“The degree to which the characters’ actions feel believable is heightened for the way the book’s narrative techniques implicate the audience. The reader, wanting things to make sense, keeps reading. Events might seem initially inexplicable on, but the reader holds out hope for a governing principle that will be discovered in time. While in story there are recording technologies that allow the characters to re-experience the past and attempt to sort out everything, the comic itself compels the reader to reread the extant issues, in order to keep track of who all the characters we see in various scenes are, and how they relate to each other.
“While Stechschulte’s previous work The Amateurs took as its subject a hole in memory originating from possibly supernatural origins, the originating corrupting force in Generous Bosom seems to be the human need to understand their memories and frame them in a way that lines up with their present ideals, which unfold at cross purposes to other people’s.”
