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nwhyte's review
3.0
https://nwhyte.livejournal.com/3535394.html
Brings together three very brief meditations on the creative process. Doesn't require much analysis.
Brings together three very brief meditations on the creative process. Doesn't require much analysis.
serena_dawn's review
4.0
A Humble Bundle purchase, An Honest Answer is three comic strips, the first is "an honest answer" to how author's get ideas from Infinity, the second "Villanelle" is a strange question with uncertain answers, and "From Homogenus to Honey" answers the question of the 'utopia' you're left with if you removed the concept of "gay pride" from all the books, TV shows, radio shows and peoples of history, a answer as faceless as the suggestion.
watercolorstain's review
3.0
This collects three very short and very different works. The first, An Honest Answer, is a silly and quirky story starring Neil himself as he tries to answer the age old question of where writers get their ideas from, featuring him screaming into the void for inspiration, and different ideas manifesting as light bulbs.
The second story, From Homogenous to Honey, is the most interesting—in 1988, the UK passed a piece of legislation called Clause 28, which prohibited local authorities from "intentionally promoting the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship". It obviously caused much outcry, and many LGBTQ+ support groups self-censored or even disbanded out of fear of prosecution. Neil's story shows us a horrifying glimpse of a society where all homosexual influences have been removed, and indirectly asks where it will stop... there is absolutely no subtlety to it, Neil's outrage shines through very clearly! The law was repealed in 2003 (late enough), so the story is definitely dated, but still interesting when considered in its historical context.
The final offering takes up a two-page-spread, and is the only comic in color: A poem called Villanelle, intertwined with Dave McKean's distinctive collage art. To save you the trouble of looking up the meaning of "villanelle", as I had to, it's "a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain, featuring two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines"... the more you know!
The second story, From Homogenous to Honey, is the most interesting—in 1988, the UK passed a piece of legislation called Clause 28, which prohibited local authorities from "intentionally promoting the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship". It obviously caused much outcry, and many LGBTQ+ support groups self-censored or even disbanded out of fear of prosecution. Neil's story shows us a horrifying glimpse of a society where all homosexual influences have been removed, and indirectly asks where it will stop... there is absolutely no subtlety to it, Neil's outrage shines through very clearly! The law was repealed in 2003 (late enough), so the story is definitely dated, but still interesting when considered in its historical context.
The final offering takes up a two-page-spread, and is the only comic in color: A poem called Villanelle, intertwined with Dave McKean's distinctive collage art. To save you the trouble of looking up the meaning of "villanelle", as I had to, it's "a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain, featuring two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines"... the more you know!
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