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by David Carter Greetings, sales charts fans! It’s time once again to look at Image Comics’s sales figures. Just a reminder that I’m not doing this as a permanent gig; just filling in until Heidi finds someone to take on the indy month-to-month chart. Please refer to July’s column for a preamble and explanation as […]
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As New York Comic-Con's show floor slowly shuffled to a close on Friday evening, The Beat's Zach Clemente slipped behind the Epic Proportions booth to chat with one of his all-time favorite artists, Cliff Chiang. They talk mostly about Chiang's new book with Image Comics, "Paper Girls".
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Dig these classic record covers drawn redrawn with superheroes by comic artist Cliff Chiang.
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Paper Girls is a rare miss for BKV.
It’s still readable and enjoyable, but it’s not up to his usual masterpiece status.
Usually with BKV he makes his characters wants/motivations absolutely clear. He failed to do so with Paper Girls. Things just happen to these girls, but their motivations are secondary/unclear.
Readers have no sense of who teh girls are or what they want.
One is an astronaut, one is the ‘tough’ one with the Dad/Step-mom in AA, and then there are… two others? And time travel? And dinosaurs?
The lack of clarity on the dinosaurs and time travel would be tolerable if we knew who the girls were and what they wanted.
To illustrate this, we knew what the dead teenagers wanted. They wanted to fight back against the dinosaur people, and help others. That’s a clear motivation/goal. The girls>? WHo knows.
We Stand on Guard was his first big whiff in a while, IMO. I’m enjoying Paper Girls a good deal though!
Yeah, We Stand On Guard didn’t do it for me either, Kyle. I will agree with Dude though that the character shading on the girls has been pretty light thus far. We have a good sense of some of their personal traumas, but they don’t have a tenable goal in mind besides “survive.” Obviously, that’s not an uncommon goal for lead characters to have in a zombie/alien/monster invasion story like Paper Girls has turned out to be. I do hope we get some more character development and secondary goals for the individual girls as the series goes on, though.
I should clarify, I’m reading Paper Girls, I like reading Paper Girls, and I will continue to read Paper Girls.
But BKV is a master of the craft. When I pick up a BKV book (cough, cough, Saga, cough) I expect motivations and character traits to be clear from Issue 1 – because he’s a master.
Paper Girls is at issue-5 and the basics aren’t clear? I’m still enjoying it, but this won’t have the legs-outside-of-hardcore-Wednesday crowd that some of his other books have. The non-hardcore crowd respond only to the best of the best.
Paper Girls is merely enjoyable with really cool art. It’s not best of the best, because it ignores the basics.
And I loved We Stand on Guard. Everything was clear from Issue 1.; US vs. Canada – main character is Red Headed Girl, with seething intense revenge motivation. Got it, Go.
That was some damn impressive world building in only 1 issue.
Similarly – I didn’t even understand half the language in Barrier – and I still completely understood who the two main characters were and what motivated them.
He’s a master. Paper Girls is such an unexpected miss.
Enjoying Paper Girls so far, possibly because I delivered Papers. Mirror, as with Pretty Deadly is hard to read on a monthly basis. Probably will switch to trades for both.