Sunday Trade: Finder
Apr. 28th, 2008 01:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lurkerwithoutI'm sure its still Sunday somewhere. Hawai'i maybe...
Finder: Dream Sequence by Carla Speed McNeil
I was actually going to cover Volume 5 of Finder a couple weeks back. But I decided I needed to reread it again. Mostly because, even more than previous volumes, this a pretty imagery dense story arc. Plus I hadn't realized that it was supposed to be around THREE decades after Talisman. Thats important. This is also probably the volume that Jaeger is only tangentially involved in. Even more than Talisman where he's mostly memory and metaphor...
Dream Sequence is about virtual worlds and world building and avoiding your problems. Also conquering your darker "demon" side so that you can make-out with it. And the difficulties with artists working for corporations and for corporations based around artists. Really lots and lots of trippy, thought-provoking stuff. Like all arcs of Finder...
Honestly every time someone complains about how all comics is anymore is super-heroes and how that genre ate all the other genres I just want to hit them with some of McNeil's books. Among others. But Finder falls in any Top 10 List of Comics That Have Damn All To Do With Super-Heroes. If you think the medium of comics is stagnated by the super-hero genre than you obviously need to step away from the Big Two and read something else. And Finder is a great place to start...
Oh and to you people who DO read indy books and complain constantly how no one pays attention to the "art"? Well you'll be hard pressed to find a series thats more artistically daring and awesome than Finder as well...
Finder: Dream Sequence by Carla Speed McNeil
I was actually going to cover Volume 5 of Finder a couple weeks back. But I decided I needed to reread it again. Mostly because, even more than previous volumes, this a pretty imagery dense story arc. Plus I hadn't realized that it was supposed to be around THREE decades after Talisman. Thats important. This is also probably the volume that Jaeger is only tangentially involved in. Even more than Talisman where he's mostly memory and metaphor...
Dream Sequence is about virtual worlds and world building and avoiding your problems. Also conquering your darker "demon" side so that you can make-out with it. And the difficulties with artists working for corporations and for corporations based around artists. Really lots and lots of trippy, thought-provoking stuff. Like all arcs of Finder...
Honestly every time someone complains about how all comics is anymore is super-heroes and how that genre ate all the other genres I just want to hit them with some of McNeil's books. Among others. But Finder falls in any Top 10 List of Comics That Have Damn All To Do With Super-Heroes. If you think the medium of comics is stagnated by the super-hero genre than you obviously need to step away from the Big Two and read something else. And Finder is a great place to start...
Oh and to you people who DO read indy books and complain constantly how no one pays attention to the "art"? Well you'll be hard pressed to find a series thats more artistically daring and awesome than Finder as well...
