Is it that time? A year has passed since the last time I (or anyone reviewed a comic)? Well damn, let's get this shitshow on the road.
TNLU opens with a girl jumping off of a hospital, plagued by voices only she can hear. When she doesn't die, that's where the rest of the story picks up. As it happens, Syd, as she comes to be called, is a not just a crazy person but has extranormal powers (quelle surprise) and falls in with a group of similarly enabled misanthropic youths, all under the auspices of The Voice, a manipulative psychic with a talent for interior decoration.
TNLU is a great read, leading our group of misguided teenage weapons on a journey through San Franciso in order to find out what, exactly, their lives are going to be. Where it explodes is in the art. Simon Gane (inking himself, thankfully) knocks it out of the park and Jordie Bellaire outdoes her usual excellent colors and turns the book into something that looks like nothing else.
This book is my latest piece of evidence against the constant annoying trend in comics-
stop drawing people in boring-ass/stupid-ass clothes. Gane knows how to dress the characters in cool, interesting clothes that act as signifiers for the characters' personalities, and seeing it here really points out how many artists work on drawing robots and guns and shit but don't know the first thing about clothing (but just take a look at con photos and I guess it's not surprising, HO HO HO).
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