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Demo Volume 2. (2011)

by Brian Wood(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0857682431 (ISBN13: 9780857682437)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Titan Publishing Company

series

Demo

review 1: Have been reading a lot of Brian Wood recently (Demo Vol 1, Northlanders,DMZ etc) and this is what I have to say to anyone else who wants to dabble in this guy's works. Remember the neighbor hood book store / library before the computer archive search was invented ? Where the store owner did not know where the gems of his / her collection were hidden ?That's Brian Wood. He will totally disappoint you with 2 - 3 extremely mediocre stories and then he will shock you cold with one amazingly written - heart wrenching story which makes you sit up and re examine reality in the perception he provides you with. Art remains uninterrupting, in fact amplifying back and white as in the sequel. Read the last 2 stories if you are hard pressed for time - you will not repent your time and... more money spent.
review 2: Demo Vol.2 Written by Brian WoodDrawn and inked by Becky CloonanDemo is like a short film festival, except all the films are made by the same two people. As you might expect there is both positive and negative in this approach.Wood and Cloonan are good at their craft. They have a wealth of unique ideas and visually striking ways to express them, and more importantly, since Demo Volume 1, their steady work in comics has refined their abilities where they no longer, not even briefly, come off as anything less than high quality professionals at the top of their game. The result is a collection with stories that are genuinely new and unexpected. No one else does anything like this in comics. Each issue/chapter tells a story of a completely different character with nothing linking any of them to any of the other chapters. You could literally read these chapters in any order and it would have absolutely no bearing on your overall perception of the collection. But see..there's the rub. because none has anything to do with the other, they really don't feel like a collection. Ostensibly there is some common thread about each of the young people featured as main characters having a "super power." But in practice Brian Wood can't seem to commit himself to this idea. One chapter features a girl who can time travel, another, a boy who breathes under water, but then, inexplicably the next chapter features a girl who has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, another, a guy who can only eat human flesh... Huh? These are not super powers. With nothing tying the stories together, the collection feels less intentional and more like a vanity project where we have to watch Wood put forth any idea that happens to cross his mind that day. Fortunately for him, his ideas are all still interesting and he has a collaborator in Cloonan who not only indulges them, but participates, using the jarringly different stories to illustrate in an altered style for each chapter. In the end Demo comes off more as a half finished experiment than a completed project. A fun and entertaining experiment, but for my money I'd rather see a little cohesion and planning than read someone's really pretty brainstorming session. less

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