For the record

[petronia]

dipping_sauce lends me comics:

The Invisibles: Say You Want A Revolution, Grant Morrison

Enigma, Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo (I'm going by the copyright notice, here, damn the Western habit of not having writer and illustrator and colourist be the same person)

Tactical error. Certain books should not be read in a small, cheerfully lit, enclosed room - at least, not if one then has to go out and face the rest of the large dark and empty house. On the one hand, beautiful love story of a sort, yes. On the other hand, I just watched Ringu again last week and do not need to be freaked out any more by covered wells - Erin I hate you in a deeply affectionate way for this - and John Lennon? WTF? I'm saving this one for tomorrow, the psychedelics are a bit overwhelming tonight.

The moral of the story: do not write comics while on drugs, because you never know if Sadako will find them.** Talk about do as I say, not as I do.



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In the Ringu prequel, one finds out that Sadako - due to her dual heritage - was in fact two distinct entities-in-one. Big!Human!Sadako was a bit of a social misfit but would have been happy with a theatre career and an understanding boyfriend. Little!Demon!Sadako spent her time locked up in the attic watching television, eventually with the results you know. Enigma is sort of like what might have happened if Sadako had been exposed to weird early-'70s acid-soaked superhero comics instead. And were a gay man, but analogy will only get you so far.

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[dipping_sauce]

*laughs*

Probably shoulda warned you about Enigma, too, huh?

And just you wait until you get to the Arcadia story in Invisibles. Just you wait.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

In fairness there was really no way you could have warned me without spoilers. I mean, I do expect a base level of freakiness from Vertigo, but that took the cake. Brilliantly written, of course; funny how comics often don't take full advantage of the medium, but this one does.

(The weirdest part is that Enigma gave me off-and-on déjà vu. You wouldn't have recounted the story to me a long time ago, by any chance? Or should I chalk it down to buggy subroutines in the Matrix?)

[dipping_sauce]

Brilliantly written, of course; funny how comics often don't take full advantage of the medium, but this one does.

It is, isn't it? Milligan's a bloody genius. I have some more of his stuff, if you want to read it.

I'm glad you like it. I was worried that the art would throw you for a loop.

(Buggy subroutines. I only got it this past Christmas. I don't think I mentioned it to you)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I do want to read. Whatever it is.

The art would throw Tania for a loop. I kind of like Fegredo's drawing style, actually; I'm probably more bothered by the "wrong" kind of stylisation than no stylisation at all, and I don't mind that it's scribbly.

(Also, I'm amused at the fact that Milligan and Morrison wrote each other's introductions, vying over embarrassing and hilariously pointless personal anecdotes.)