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If you heaven't read David Mazzuchelli's amazing graphic novel Asterios Polyp, please avert your eyes NOW. The award winning GN and book of the year in 2009 was a sly comment on art through the life of a man named Asterios Polyp, who finds potential happiness in life just in time to [SPOILER ALERT] have it potentially snuffed out by having a meteor fall on his house.
I like to think the meteor missed Polyp’s house.
Asterios Polyp or Superman: Red Son? Or possibly Green Lantern’s origin story, or Venom’s from the third Spider-Man movie.
Come to think of it, comics have a lot of objects crashing to earth from space.
OH MY GOD I JUST REALIZED IT WAS TIED INTO HIS SHORT STORY IN RUBBER BLANKETS #1
mazzucchelli, you brilliant bastard.
Asterios Polyp was one of the best comics ever. So, so good trying to get my fiancé to read it as an introduction to comics.
“OH MY GOD I JUST REALIZED IT WAS TIED INTO HIS SHORT STORY IN RUBBER BLANKETS #1″
That’s news for me! I don’t have that comic and doubt I’ll ever be able to get it, so can you give me some SPOILERS about it?