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Fogtown (2010)

by Andersen Gabrych(Favorite Author)

2.91 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1401213847 (ISBN13: 9781401213848)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Vertigo

review 1: I hated this book for about the first thirty pages. It was everything I've had issue with regarding the whole Vertigo Crime line. Why write pulp that doesn't do anything with the genre? Why recreate the genre as though nothing's changed in the last few decades since pulp was at its height?And then, the story changed. A layer got added, and then another, and suddenly the stereotype detective shifted from a hard-bitten drunk who hates everyone into a self-loathing man whose world view is so clearly impacted by how much he's been taught to hate himself and how much of it he's internalized. He becomes a very messed-up person rather than just another burly detective.It's not a perfect book. The third act is a bit scrambled, and those first thirty pages go down hard, but it's wo... morerth it to experience the whole story and appreciate that the creators on this book wrote that hard-bitten detective pulp and found where it twist it on its stand. It is, I think, what Vertigo was going for with the whole series, and it's well worth the read.
review 2: I was about 140 pages in - probably would've been done in 15 minutes - and I realized that the book was too terrible to continue with. The pile of clichés studded with laughably bad "plot twists" had finally accumulated to the point where I was driven away. I might've been able to stand it if even one character had even one redeeming quality, or if the artwork wasn't horrible, but sadly 'twas not to be. less

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