Pantheon Graphic Library X'Ed Out, (Hardcover)

from jasonlf

A short graphic novel, the first installment of a trilogy. One cannot fully judge the merits of this volume when the other two come out. In many places, it is an elliptical, dreamlike tease. If the future volumes do more to tie all of this together, then this might be the beginning of a brilliant...

from jasonpettus

I'm intrigued so far by Charles Burns' new serial outing, which like "Black Hole" promises to be an unsettling mix of realistic coming-of-age tale with the fantastically grotesque, in a visual style here perhaps best described as Tintin having a bad opium trip. I'll be waiting until all the volum...

from JonathanGorman

I've enjoyed Burns work for quite a while, stumbling across some as a kid (his Hard-Boiled Decfective Stories book, as an EC fan loved the cover). I've always been excited when stumbling across more of his work. This is a solid work, with surreal images, bizarre looking people, trippy mental stat...

from EricKibler

At first I thought this was a stand-alone graphic novel, but it's only the first chapter of what promises to be a much longer work. I am intrigued, baffled and creeped out in the same manner that I was intrigued, baffled and creeped out by "Black Hole" when I first read the comic book installment...

from nosajeel

A short graphic novel, the first installment of a trilogy. One cannot fully judge the merits of this volume when the other two come out. In many places, it is an elliptical, dreamlike tease. If the future volumes do more to tie all of this together, then this might be the beginning of a brilliant...