of thestar.com writes:
David Mazzucchelli made an indelible mark as a comic artist by the time he was just 27.
He dropped jaws with his gritty, inky work on two of the most critically acclaimed stories of the 1980s: Daredevil: Born Again and Batman: Year One, both in collaboration with industry giant Frank Miller.
Then he was gone. Mazzucchelli had pretty much disappeared from mainstream comics.
Now Mazzucchelli bursts back onto the scene with his first graphic novel, and it is well worth the wait.
Asterios Polyp (Pantheon Books, 344 pages, $34) is a tour de force that opens with the destruction of the titular character’s Manhattan apartment on his 50th birthday. Polyp finds himself in the aptly named town of Apogee, where he proceeds to reinvent himself as a humble auto mechanic, while compulsively pondering the events of his past.
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Thus far, I have not been a fan of graphic novels because I have difficulty reading comic books. It saddens me because I really wanted to read The Watchmen and Asterios Polyp sounds really good.
Are you a fan of graphic novels? Which ones have you read? Does this one sound worth checking out?
