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Athos In America (2012)

by Jason(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1606994786 (ISBN13: 9781606994788)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Fantagraphics

review 1: This is the first Jason book I have read that is not a single story, but rather a collection of stories. I have to say that this seems like a weaker effort then the previous works I have read. If feels like he had an idea for the beginning, and middle of a story, but when it came to the end...well he just didn't do it. I suppose some of the stories do have an ending, but it doesn't feel right. I don't know what it is I'm really trying to say here. It's that old saying of "well, I know it when I see it." I did enjoy the book though. The story that revolves around a fictional version of the author himself, or at least I hope it's made up, was very funny. The coloring on So Long, Mary Ann is really good. I'd like to see Jason do more work with similar coloring.My final though... moret about this book would that it is for fans. If you have read Jason's work before you will enjoy this book. If you haven't read it before, start with one of his 48 page comics. They will show you what Jason is really capable of.
review 2: Another beautiful hard cover collection of shorter stories by Jason. As always his style is deceivingly simple with anthropomorphic characters, a clear line and not very many details. Despite this the drawings are able to convey lots of feelings. I have previously expressed a worry that Jason is starting to repeat himself. In this volume I think that he shows some new sides. The stories are somewhat darker, in particular the hard boiled gangster drama "So long, Mary Ann". Also he plays some new tricks with the storytelling. I particularly enjoyed the four different perspectives on the same events in "Tom Waits on the moon". In the beginning of the bizarre horror story "The brain that wouldn't Virginia Woolf" we get to see rougher a bit more varied line work as well. On the downside I found the title story "Athos in America" to be somewhat pointless. The idea (one of the three musketeers goes to Hollywood to play himself) seemed crazy enough to work but it ended up as a not so engaging dialogue with a bartender. All in all I think that this volume shows that Jason continues to develop and is one of the contemporary artists worth following. less

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