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sizrobe's review against another edition
3.0
Lawman decides to stop turning a blind eye to the town factory. Pretty straightforward, with a bizarre little surreal interlude over a few pages in the middle.
bluepigeon's review
3.0
Snow Day is beautifully illustrated. The inking is beautiful. The landscapes are striking. The pacing of the story and its depth are a bit lacking. The writing seems choppy at times, and repetitive in others. It has elements of noir, but comes across as trying to hard. The sheriff is a good guy. From conversations with his ex and his housekeeper, we gather that he was away and now he is back, but we don't really know. These two women ask him why he has come back, or why he is still here, and he doesn't seem to have an answer; it seems that he just wants to root out the evil in the factory. The factory owner and the mayor are in cahoots and are bad guys, though we don't really get to know why. They have three goons, who work at the factory and beat up on the other workers if they complain about the work conditions (this is the only thing I could figure out the sheriff must mean when he says those three "do more than just work" at the factory?!) The three goons, the factory owner and the mayor all bully the sheriff, but he is a like a bad penny, he keeps dogging them and arresting the guys, etc. In the end, he "wins" with the help of his ex and another woman in town (there seem to be very few people in this town; perhaps all are working at the factory.
The plot is thin and requires some fleshing out; we don't even know the basics: what kind of factory is it? Why are these men bad? We get an inkling of some of the other questions, but not enough to be sure: it seems that the sheriff decides to do his job and stand up to the factory owner and the mayor as an act of showing he is a good, strong man and worthy of the love of his ex, whom he still loves. But this thread is too weak to support the action.
The kooky characters, like Becky and Butch, seem stereotypical, though they do add to the thin cast and make the story a bit more interesting. In a longer work, their stories could be fleshed out and linked to the sheriff's troubles.
Someone else mentioned the stylistic choice of the loose sketch drawings for the scene where two guys are recounting what happened the night before (where the sheriff arrested the three goons). Though I understand this choice as something to distinguish the retelling of a story within the larger story, I think the decision to draw the most important scene in the story with the least detail is not a great one... Why not open the story with this scene in full detail? Later, if the waitress (sheriff's ex) wants to know what happened the night before, the two guys at the diner can tell her in a few sentences. Better yet, they can just be like "why, you haven't heard?" and we can infer that she found out later from someone else and came to help the sheriff... There are many possibilities; I'm not convinced that the one the authors decided on was the best.
Recommended for those who like deer, snow, factories, bears, and ghosts.
The plot is thin and requires some fleshing out; we don't even know the basics: what kind of factory is it? Why are these men bad? We get an inkling of some of the other questions, but not enough to be sure: it seems that the sheriff decides to do his job and stand up to the factory owner and the mayor as an act of showing he is a good, strong man and worthy of the love of his ex, whom he still loves. But this thread is too weak to support the action.
The kooky characters, like Becky and Butch, seem stereotypical, though they do add to the thin cast and make the story a bit more interesting. In a longer work, their stories could be fleshed out and linked to the sheriff's troubles.
Someone else mentioned the stylistic choice of the loose sketch drawings for the scene where two guys are recounting what happened the night before (where the sheriff arrested the three goons). Though I understand this choice as something to distinguish the retelling of a story within the larger story, I think the decision to draw the most important scene in the story with the least detail is not a great one... Why not open the story with this scene in full detail? Later, if the waitress (sheriff's ex) wants to know what happened the night before, the two guys at the diner can tell her in a few sentences. Better yet, they can just be like "why, you haven't heard?" and we can infer that she found out later from someone else and came to help the sheriff... There are many possibilities; I'm not convinced that the one the authors decided on was the best.
Recommended for those who like deer, snow, factories, bears, and ghosts.
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