Anyone read this? #1 came out last week. I saw a few comic pros raving about it on Twitter and decided to check it out.
It's really unique. There's a lot going on but it never feels like it's too much, even though the reader is getting story thrown at him from every angle.
Here's an excerpt from the CBR review of #1:
In the letters page the author Matt Kindt (he's going to be co-writing Frankenstein: Agent of SHADE starting with issue 10) talks about how this is an attempt to get people reading monthlies again, and that there are tons of secrets scattered throughout the book relating to the story.
The art is unique, too...it's watercolors, and the layouts are tight...no 2 panel pages like in a lot of modern comics.
I really liked it. I like books that force me to re-read to pick up on things, like this obviously will.
It's really unique. There's a lot going on but it never feels like it's too much, even though the reader is getting story thrown at him from every angle.
Here's an excerpt from the CBR review of #1:
Matt Kindt's story begins with a violent scene of two people fighting one another, but as one dies, someone steps in to try to kill the victor, and so on. We don't yet have an explanation for what is happening, but I'm sure the title is our best hint. Following the opening scenes we see a plane full of travelers, pilots, and flight attendants who have lost their memories in an instant. And next is a struggling (once best selling) writer that cannot manage to write her second book as she watches a news report on the two year anniversary of "The Amnesia Flight." The writer, Meru, is strangely compelled by this story, but a phone call with her agent reveals there is a great deal more here we don't yet understand. By the end of the book Meru is in Mexico and on the run with an injured CIA agent after his partner has been murdered. It's quite the story already.
In the letters page the author Matt Kindt (he's going to be co-writing Frankenstein: Agent of SHADE starting with issue 10) talks about how this is an attempt to get people reading monthlies again, and that there are tons of secrets scattered throughout the book relating to the story.
The art is unique, too...it's watercolors, and the layouts are tight...no 2 panel pages like in a lot of modern comics.
I really liked it. I like books that force me to re-read to pick up on things, like this obviously will.