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kittyg's review
3.0
I'm giving this issue a 3.5*s overall becuase it was an intersting one, but the artwork for the first story wasn't really to my tastes and so it ended up not being quite as high as I would have liked.
This is issue #4 of the Island story and I think it's a pretty interesting idea and I always have the urge to buy these when I see them. The problem comes when you have no idea what you might get out of the story becuase there could be a lot of shorter stories or a few long ones and you might not like any of them. It's experimental, it's fun, but it's also a bit hit or miss so just be a ware of that if you do want to get into this series!
In terms of the content this issue starts with a few pages from Roque Romero who's style is bright, bold and building-like. He certainly knows how to use pops of colour everywhere and draw the eye with little shapes, but the 'story' was very loose so I gave it a 2.5*s.
Moving on to Farel Dalrymple with whom we get an interview and then a long story. I felt that the interview was nice so we got to know him a bit more, but then equally I did feel that the actual storyline and artwork of his one wasn't for me. The story is pretty odd, it seems to be about multiple worlds and it's a continuation of an older series I believe (although in the interview he says you can start with this one). It was fine, interesting at points and odd at points, so a 2.5*s for that one.
Then we come to Brandon Graham (creator) and his pages. I always LOVE the colour tones that Graham uses within his work because they are so different to the more realistic tones most people work with. He's not afraid of citrus colours and washed-out colours and he's certainly not afraid to write a story which is pretty batty too. The story itself is hard to follow as a whole because it's meant to be odd. The characters are peculiar, otherworldly creatures and the narrative is strange throughout but the small puns and funny jokes which he weaves in to the small cracks of his society are fab so I have to give this a 4*s overall.
Finally we have a story by Gael Bertrand. This one was probably the story which I most enjoyed within this issue because it was just drawn in some superb images, with no text. The style is bold and uses crosshatching really effectively, and overall I think that it worked very effectively as a short with more potential. 4*s again.
Overall it's a 3.5* read for me, but of course it's always open to interpretation and other people may get more or less from the artwork than I did :)
This is issue #4 of the Island story and I think it's a pretty interesting idea and I always have the urge to buy these when I see them. The problem comes when you have no idea what you might get out of the story becuase there could be a lot of shorter stories or a few long ones and you might not like any of them. It's experimental, it's fun, but it's also a bit hit or miss so just be a ware of that if you do want to get into this series!
In terms of the content this issue starts with a few pages from Roque Romero who's style is bright, bold and building-like. He certainly knows how to use pops of colour everywhere and draw the eye with little shapes, but the 'story' was very loose so I gave it a 2.5*s.
Moving on to Farel Dalrymple with whom we get an interview and then a long story. I felt that the interview was nice so we got to know him a bit more, but then equally I did feel that the actual storyline and artwork of his one wasn't for me. The story is pretty odd, it seems to be about multiple worlds and it's a continuation of an older series I believe (although in the interview he says you can start with this one). It was fine, interesting at points and odd at points, so a 2.5*s for that one.
Then we come to Brandon Graham (creator) and his pages. I always LOVE the colour tones that Graham uses within his work because they are so different to the more realistic tones most people work with. He's not afraid of citrus colours and washed-out colours and he's certainly not afraid to write a story which is pretty batty too. The story itself is hard to follow as a whole because it's meant to be odd. The characters are peculiar, otherworldly creatures and the narrative is strange throughout but the small puns and funny jokes which he weaves in to the small cracks of his society are fab so I have to give this a 4*s overall.
Finally we have a story by Gael Bertrand. This one was probably the story which I most enjoyed within this issue because it was just drawn in some superb images, with no text. The style is bold and uses crosshatching really effectively, and overall I think that it worked very effectively as a short with more potential. 4*s again.
Overall it's a 3.5* read for me, but of course it's always open to interpretation and other people may get more or less from the artwork than I did :)
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