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juushikaTitle: The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
Author: Ram V.
Illustrator: Filipe Andrade
Published: BOOM! Studios, 2022
Rating: 2.5 of 5
Page Count: 130
Total Page Count: 529,000
Text Number: 1938
Read Because: browsing graphic novels shelf at..., hardback borrowed from the Timberland Regional Library
Review: The god of death is fired and sent to live on earth when the baby who will invent immortality is born. The art here has a stretchy, caricatured flow and vibrant colorwork, celebrating the setting (Mumbai) & related cultural imagery. But the plot bores me. It's a meditation on the fear of & inevitability of death and doesn't offer anything new to that well-tread ground: chose to value life in the face of death; okay. When short comics are released in individual issues, I think they suffer; the beats (introducing/dismissing supporting characters; tackling the resolution) are too regular & often rushed. The big takeaway, and one day I'll internalize this, is that American comics tend not to work for me.
Author: Ram V.
Illustrator: Filipe Andrade
Published: BOOM! Studios, 2022
Rating: 2.5 of 5
Page Count: 130
Total Page Count: 529,000
Text Number: 1938
Read Because: browsing graphic novels shelf at..., hardback borrowed from the Timberland Regional Library
Review: The god of death is fired and sent to live on earth when the baby who will invent immortality is born. The art here has a stretchy, caricatured flow and vibrant colorwork, celebrating the setting (Mumbai) & related cultural imagery. But the plot bores me. It's a meditation on the fear of & inevitability of death and doesn't offer anything new to that well-tread ground: chose to value life in the face of death; okay. When short comics are released in individual issues, I think they suffer; the beats (introducing/dismissing supporting characters; tackling the resolution) are too regular & often rushed. The big takeaway, and one day I'll internalize this, is that American comics tend not to work for me.
