The Bitter Guide to Jinx
May. 22nd, 2004 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebitterguyWell, an enjoyable piece. I wonder if the author finds it at all sophomoric now? I mean, the dialogue is enjoyable, sure, but there's a reason people in fiction don't talk like people in real life. That reason is that 90% of the time, people in real life are pretty much COMPLETELY incomprehensible.
I'm all in favour of 'realistic' dialogue/speech, and when I write fiction, that's what I use. BUT you have to make sure you have, you know, complete thoughts and meaningful sentences. Realism and being interesting are not that far apart, and most of the time Bendis manages to tread the line well.
Art-wise, it's a bit of a mess. It's difficult to tell what's going on sometimes, which is pretty much an inexcusable crime in a graphic novel. Maybe I'm spoiled by 26 years of colour illustrations and improving paper quality, but I'm just an addict for lines. Overusing shadows is much the same as overusing 'realistic dialogue'. It's all a matter of learning control.
Enjoyable, though, and much more accessible than the Powers TPB I picked up.
The characterization is interesting, and the story moves well up until the end.
To rate it? I'd give it 2.5 out of 4.
I'm all in favour of 'realistic' dialogue/speech, and when I write fiction, that's what I use. BUT you have to make sure you have, you know, complete thoughts and meaningful sentences. Realism and being interesting are not that far apart, and most of the time Bendis manages to tread the line well.
Art-wise, it's a bit of a mess. It's difficult to tell what's going on sometimes, which is pretty much an inexcusable crime in a graphic novel. Maybe I'm spoiled by 26 years of colour illustrations and improving paper quality, but I'm just an addict for lines. Overusing shadows is much the same as overusing 'realistic dialogue'. It's all a matter of learning control.
Enjoyable, though, and much more accessible than the Powers TPB I picked up.
The characterization is interesting, and the story moves well up until the end.
To rate it? I'd give it 2.5 out of 4.
