THE SHADOW OF A MAN
THE OBSCURE CITIES
Writer: Benoit Peeters, Artist: Francois Schuiten
A newlywed man is having terrible nightmares. He sees a doctor who gives him an experimental drug. The nightmares go away but now his shadow is in color! It drives him mad. He loses his wife, his job and his home. Down on his luck a women gives him hope that he can turn his colorful shadow into something good.
IDW's next Obscure Cities translation arrives into my eager grubby hands with high expectations and meets them all. A reto-futistic noir tale of the everyman, this one feel a bit subtler and softer than the previous works. Schuiten having produced the color first then the linework gives it a kind of an ethereal dreamy quality compared the other Obscure Cities stories. At least the handful I've read. The architecture still remains jaw dropping and awe inspiring. IDW's reproduction on all these books is flawless. I only wish they were hardcovers. And I'm not a hardcover snob, I usually don't care. But the Obscure Cities books and the Corto Maltese books deserve it.
There's an afterward with a handful of pages reproduced from an earlier edition included here. Apparently the creators weren't happy with certain aspects of the story and felt like they could do it better, this was about ten years later. This was my first time reading the story and I thought it was just wonderful. I didn't notice any seams or difference of quality. I was totally engrossed the whole time.
There are two more Obscure Cities books as fish on Amazon. I think the next one is scheduled for later in the year. I'll keep my fingers crossed. With Corto Maltese wrapped up these are my most wanted books. The reproduction is sharp and the stories are beautiful and amazing. As far as the IDW released book in this series go I'd rate this one as my least favorite but that's really splitting hairs, on the whole they are some of the best comics I've ever read. I absolutely can't wait for the next volume!
THE OBSCURE CITIES
Writer: Benoit Peeters, Artist: Francois Schuiten
A newlywed man is having terrible nightmares. He sees a doctor who gives him an experimental drug. The nightmares go away but now his shadow is in color! It drives him mad. He loses his wife, his job and his home. Down on his luck a women gives him hope that he can turn his colorful shadow into something good.
IDW's next Obscure Cities translation arrives into my eager grubby hands with high expectations and meets them all. A reto-futistic noir tale of the everyman, this one feel a bit subtler and softer than the previous works. Schuiten having produced the color first then the linework gives it a kind of an ethereal dreamy quality compared the other Obscure Cities stories. At least the handful I've read. The architecture still remains jaw dropping and awe inspiring. IDW's reproduction on all these books is flawless. I only wish they were hardcovers. And I'm not a hardcover snob, I usually don't care. But the Obscure Cities books and the Corto Maltese books deserve it.
There's an afterward with a handful of pages reproduced from an earlier edition included here. Apparently the creators weren't happy with certain aspects of the story and felt like they could do it better, this was about ten years later. This was my first time reading the story and I thought it was just wonderful. I didn't notice any seams or difference of quality. I was totally engrossed the whole time.
There are two more Obscure Cities books as fish on Amazon. I think the next one is scheduled for later in the year. I'll keep my fingers crossed. With Corto Maltese wrapped up these are my most wanted books. The reproduction is sharp and the stories are beautiful and amazing. As far as the IDW released book in this series go I'd rate this one as my least favorite but that's really splitting hairs, on the whole they are some of the best comics I've ever read. I absolutely can't wait for the next volume!
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