Yeah, it was that bad.ĭon't get me wrong, maybe you will love it, the concept is really intriguing and that's what brought my attention to it. An ARC of a stand-alone graphic novel? 24 relationships explored in sequential arc clouds? What could go wrong? (You probably see it, I didn't when I hit the request button) I'm gonna tell you in case you haven't anticipated it: everything. I jumped when I saw this book in NetGalley's Read Now list, up for review. Often a creator’s indie projects are better than their work-for-hire at the Big 2 – not Mr Fawkes! His self-consciously (f)arty comic is even more dismal than his terrible work at DC! No finger snaps for this rubbish! And that’s one page – out of 130!Īwful beat poetry, terrible art – it’s like an art student’s coursework! Regardless of its emotional subject matter, Fawkes’ amateurish rendering in no way “moves” me – except to close the book for good long before the end!Ĭomics like this somehow got Fawkes his writing gig at DC. The fire the electric need to tell you who I am to draw a smile “when I turn to the wheeling skies I am not afraid And the writing is shockingly bad – here’s a snippet: Character, story, time passing – the book does it all extremely poorly. The character designs are very similar, drawn in the same black and white, indistinct and ugly, clunky line. It’s a pretty terrible format choice as it’s hard to separate the individual stories when they’re all written in the same voice. That's when we're not getting close-ups of two leaves - seriously. There’s a panel per couple every two pages so you have roughly twelve panels over two pages with the twelve stories playing out simultaneously.
Ray Fawkes’ The People Inside looks at twelve different couples in twelve different love-themed stories.
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