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Sugar Skull (2014)

by Charles Burns(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0307907902 (ISBN13: 9780307907905)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Pantheon

series

X'ed Out Trilogy

review 1: When I was in elementary school there was a girl in my class who, to my juvenile eyes, was the most perfect and beautiful creature I’d ever seen. Therefore, I concluded, she must be a robot. No human being, inherently flawed and full of fluids that often leaked out of porous skin bags, could attend such perfection without there being a catch. The catch, of course, was in my own perceptions. I see Charles Burns as an artist who has attained unattainable standards. His hand is steady as a machine, he inks with greater precision than a printer, and produces pages of beautifully rendered comic art. But he’s more than a craftsman, he’s a weirdo, who also manages to tap into a surreal experience often creepy, funny and oddly relatable at the same time. So it is with his la... moretest magnum opus, a trilogy of literally underground comics, which concludes in SUGAR SKULL. What a sweet treat.
review 2: Often, for me at least, a review incorporates more than the content of the book. In other words, I can't exclude price from the equation. The three books (60 odd pages each) that make up these three books should absolutely have been issued as a single book and, as a result, this story ends up being a very expensive 190 page graphic novel.If issued properly as a single entity for $20-$25...I'd give it a 7/10...it's an interesting story that FAR better read successively as a cohesive unit than in parts. As issued, it's hard to recommend the series as being worth the $50 it requires to buy them all. 5.5 or 6/10 as there volumes and eminently skippable. less

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