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A review by jekutree
The Red Circle and Seven Deadly Daughters by Rich Tommaso
4.0
The absolute strongest 7 out of 10 I have ever read lol.
There was so much about this I loved, the structure, the art style, the visual storytelling. I loved how Rich Tommaso weaved all of these characters together, fleshing them out with flashbacks while also forwarding a narrative. It felt very Love and Rockets or Stray Bullets in that aspect. It was a basic mob revenge story where orphaned daughters are taking revenge against the monsters and hit men who killed their parents. The constant flashbacks and switching points of view is what intrigued me the most when I was reading. I also really liked how balls to the wall and abrupt the ending was. I really liked that last page a ton.
My beef with the book though is in the brevity of certain segments. I think a few more pages could’ve fleshed some under developed parts out. I don’t know how this was serialized, I know it was in 7 issues, but I don’t know how it was broken up issue by issue. Some of the dialogue is a bit wonky too. At times it could be kind of lifeless, but I do think the art and the visual storytelling save it. The narration to at times is a bit much, but I’m always an anti narration guy unless it’s done super well.
I also ran into a few confusing page layouts. I’m reading through Building Stories by Chris Ware right now and he manages to do some wild layouts that are surprisingly not that difficult to read. I thought the simplicity of these layouts would give me an easy time, but there’s a good handful of pages that go across the spread instead of page by page. It had me skipping around the page not really understanding if I was supposed to read the page normally or read across the whole book. I would’ve preferred a more consistent layout of either fully across or singular pages.
I did love this book despite some glaring flaws. I thought the structure, connecting plot lines and art style were awesome. It’s definitely worth a read and it enticed me to pick up some more Rich Tommaso.
There was so much about this I loved, the structure, the art style, the visual storytelling. I loved how Rich Tommaso weaved all of these characters together, fleshing them out with flashbacks while also forwarding a narrative. It felt very Love and Rockets or Stray Bullets in that aspect. It was a basic mob revenge story where orphaned daughters are taking revenge against the monsters and hit men who killed their parents. The constant flashbacks and switching points of view is what intrigued me the most when I was reading. I also really liked how balls to the wall and abrupt the ending was. I really liked that last page a ton.
My beef with the book though is in the brevity of certain segments. I think a few more pages could’ve fleshed some under developed parts out. I don’t know how this was serialized, I know it was in 7 issues, but I don’t know how it was broken up issue by issue. Some of the dialogue is a bit wonky too. At times it could be kind of lifeless, but I do think the art and the visual storytelling save it. The narration to at times is a bit much, but I’m always an anti narration guy unless it’s done super well.
I also ran into a few confusing page layouts. I’m reading through Building Stories by Chris Ware right now and he manages to do some wild layouts that are surprisingly not that difficult to read. I thought the simplicity of these layouts would give me an easy time, but there’s a good handful of pages that go across the spread instead of page by page. It had me skipping around the page not really understanding if I was supposed to read the page normally or read across the whole book. I would’ve preferred a more consistent layout of either fully across or singular pages.
I did love this book despite some glaring flaws. I thought the structure, connecting plot lines and art style were awesome. It’s definitely worth a read and it enticed me to pick up some more Rich Tommaso.