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geekwayne's review against another edition
4.0
'Reading the Ruins' by David B. is a story filled with surrealistic nightmarish art. That it takes place during World War I, makes it all appropriate.
It is 1917 and Europe is at war. Jan Van Meer is a spy tasked with finding an odd engineer named Hellequin. Hellequin has invented strange weapons like a dream cannon and a barbed wire plant. Jan is really sent to not find him, as he is followed by enemy operatives. The story ends up in the muddy trenches of the Great War where we seem to see the dream cannon working it nightmares on the troops.
The story is absurdist, as many felt that war was. The art is wonderfully unique and feels like it's out of the early years of the previous century. It feels almost like early labor union posters or almost a woodcut look with heavy lines and characters that have limited depth. The story left me confused sometimes, but the story kept me going in this wonderfully illustrated story.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Europe Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
It is 1917 and Europe is at war. Jan Van Meer is a spy tasked with finding an odd engineer named Hellequin. Hellequin has invented strange weapons like a dream cannon and a barbed wire plant. Jan is really sent to not find him, as he is followed by enemy operatives. The story ends up in the muddy trenches of the Great War where we seem to see the dream cannon working it nightmares on the troops.
The story is absurdist, as many felt that war was. The art is wonderfully unique and feels like it's out of the early years of the previous century. It feels almost like early labor union posters or almost a woodcut look with heavy lines and characters that have limited depth. The story left me confused sometimes, but the story kept me going in this wonderfully illustrated story.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Europe Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
nycterisberna's review against another edition
3.0
Otro cómic de uno de mis historietistas favoritos. Una hermosa historia de desencuentros y encuentros, donde en plena Primera Guerra un espía holandés debe encontrar a un ingeniero que está desarrollando extrañas armas secretas, mientras se pregunta por el mensaje que el Dios de la Guerra le está enviando a través de los bombardeos. Todo esto matizado por el sinsentido de la guerra misma. Muy buena.
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