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A review by anetq
The River at Night by Kevin Huizenga
2.0
Well this was less... everything... than expected. I guess it might be interesting, if you're a middle aged man who suffers from insomnia?
I found Glenn wholly uninteresting, and his inner life boring - no idea what his wife Wendy would see in him? I find his musings both a little too neurotic and also just a little too occupied with the simple WOW of possible time travel and how endless the universe is - the way 9 year old boys are.
The drawing style is quite nice, and the page layout is used in interesting ways. So nothing wrong with the graphic art (hence the second star). Shame about the stories though. He's won all sorts of prices for graphic novels, but maybe his other works have less boring characters? Or maybe the committees all consisted of middle aged men, who identified?
I found Glenn wholly uninteresting, and his inner life boring - no idea what his wife Wendy would see in him? I find his musings both a little too neurotic and also just a little too occupied with the simple WOW of possible time travel and how endless the universe is - the way 9 year old boys are.
The drawing style is quite nice, and the page layout is used in interesting ways. So nothing wrong with the graphic art (hence the second star). Shame about the stories though. He's won all sorts of prices for graphic novels, but maybe his other works have less boring characters? Or maybe the committees all consisted of middle aged men, who identified?