Posted on 21/07/07
Comic-book supercritic saves the day
READING COMICSHow Graphic Novels Work and What They MeanBy Douglas WolkDa Capo, 404 pages, $27.50Comic book fans are a wary, guarded lot. They can be gregarious enough in their native habitat, in the cloistered confines of a specialty store waiting for the regular Wednesday shipment of new comics, but they tend to freeze up when encountering outsiders. The fear, often enough confirmed by experience, is that any non-fan just won't get it, won't appreciate the special glory of Jack Kirby's dynamically clunky art or Alan Moore's intricately febrile writing, won't warm up to the peculiar pleasure of seeing words and pictures jostling with each other to tell a story on a page.
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