February 20, 2017
Man, this is going to be a long two months if all of these comics are a lot like this one. I mean, this one was better than the last few comics in this - but still so messy and awful. And really - if it's bound by or adjacent to the real world, it would certainly help to make much of the real world more realistic. Does anyone believe that in the 1990's there was a mental ward facility - with no real supervision - that had all of these mental patients wandering around in a giant room able to be passed around each other - all in straitjackets? Sorry - but he may have been tapped out when we went to the well on this one.
I do like the effort to keep the world really bound together. Putting Chasm inside of the story helped - even if these kids were gnats on his wall. But after he just disposed of the body with such expedience earlier - would he really create these mental patients to dispose of his new problems?
I guess I just can't get by the problem in my mind that this is supposed to be enjoyable - and it really hasn't been so far. The dialogue is poorly written - and sometimes really overbearing. Take when Nobody is supposed to be discovering the monster inside of his closet - and then sees Chasm across the street. The dialogue is so bad. I honestly don't think anyone anywhere would have ever had those words with himself. But the comic devotes so much to not reading the inner dialogue - and still has narration - that it tries to wedge the thought process into words instead. For whatever reason, the art doesn't at all have the ability to convey any sense of emotion through the twist of a face - and makes the comic really suffer.
The comic also has the four page description inside of the REAL Good Guys. I wonder whatever happened to these kids - and if they might still be bitter - or perhaps some kind of has-been celebrity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGTArzJKQB8
I have included an interview on the Good Guys comic above - this pne specifially relating to Laura Neale. I can't imagine the immense pressure that the kids were under - and even these tiny interviews seem to elude to the breaking of the industry behind them. Cool to see more of the Schism covers behind the interviews - but really? This?
I do like the effort to keep the world really bound together. Putting Chasm inside of the story helped - even if these kids were gnats on his wall. But after he just disposed of the body with such expedience earlier - would he really create these mental patients to dispose of his new problems?
I guess I just can't get by the problem in my mind that this is supposed to be enjoyable - and it really hasn't been so far. The dialogue is poorly written - and sometimes really overbearing. Take when Nobody is supposed to be discovering the monster inside of his closet - and then sees Chasm across the street. The dialogue is so bad. I honestly don't think anyone anywhere would have ever had those words with himself. But the comic devotes so much to not reading the inner dialogue - and still has narration - that it tries to wedge the thought process into words instead. For whatever reason, the art doesn't at all have the ability to convey any sense of emotion through the twist of a face - and makes the comic really suffer.
The comic also has the four page description inside of the REAL Good Guys. I wonder whatever happened to these kids - and if they might still be bitter - or perhaps some kind of has-been celebrity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGTArzJKQB8
I have included an interview on the Good Guys comic above - this pne specifially relating to Laura Neale. I can't imagine the immense pressure that the kids were under - and even these tiny interviews seem to elude to the breaking of the industry behind them. Cool to see more of the Schism covers behind the interviews - but really? This?