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Halfway to Amarillo (2023) Writer's Block the Hard Way

The 2023 comedy western Halfway to Amarillo shows us writer’s block; the hard way. Hard writing, hard whiskey and two hard guys who want to settle a score. With the writer. Halfway to Amarillo the Story Michael Coleman is writing a western tale. He runs up against writers block just as his two main characters are about to meet. Michael hits the whiskey and ends up meeting his two gunslingers…

Halfway to Amarillo (2023) Writer's Block the Hard Way

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‘Color bravely spoke its voice into the void, creating a twisting, turning creature which found itself shaped by the push and pull of new molecules. A creature which would spark both terror and temptation, both faith and fealty, within the humans yet to make their beings known in this tumultuous explosion of matter and anti-matter.’

From ‘Journey of the Rainbow Serpent’, retold by Nartana Premachandra, included in our current issue: SAINTS & SINNERS. Read the full story on our online archive!

https://parabola.org/.../01/journey-of-the-rainbow-serpent/

Image by Luke Jones.

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Book Review: Square Eyes

The story explores ideas around identity, reality, memory, and freedom. As the back of the book itself says: In a city built on digital illusion, who really holds the power?

While the story and concepts are interesting, it is truly the art that brings them to life. It’s outstanding. The level of detail, use of colour, the overlaying of reality with the digital world, the digital interfaces, the use of negative space.

Full review.

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“I liken the situation to an invisible prison, that we dropped into at birth and can no longer even see...”

- Square Eyes by Anna Mill & Luke Jones

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Mill and Jones

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Square Eyes by Anna Mill and Luke Jones

Read Time: 1 Day Rating: 2.5/5

The quote: “Brainside?... Fin — you worked out how to write data to the human brain and you didn't tell anybody?" "... I was focused on other things.” — George & Fin Ueda-Soto

To me Square Eyes is re-readable, in fact, I think it might be a graphic novel that has to be read more than once to be understood. I think there might be some kind of message in there about the perils of technology and trusting the wrong people. This tells its story using beautiful and smart art, there is diversity in the art page to page as Fin learns more about her situation. I didn't dislike the characters as far as I understood them. They are easily distinguished and everyone has good and bad traits, they are human. That said the story is damn near incomprehensible on a first read. And I'm not in any hurry to read it again.

Square Eyes does have what is possibly some of the best use of white space I've seen in years outside of picture storybooks. I'm going to be honest, as clever as the art of this graphic novel is it makes me a little nauseous. Also the writing...the writing can be so very difficult to read with such low contrast between the textbox and the text. It isn't the easiest thing to read. I'm rating it 2.5 due to my confusion and discomfort while reading.