Change #1 – Review

By: Ales Kot (writer), Morgan Jeske (art), Sloane Leong and Ed Brisson

The Story: I’m honestly not sure….

Quick review: This just isn’t a comic for me.  I know that there are people who like this sort of story and I know that I should just agree to disagree with those people.   But deep inside I wonder what the hell is wrong with people who enjoy these oblique and impenetrable stories.

The beginning of the end (for me) happened early in this comic where we have a lovely splash-page showing a cityscape and narration boxes that say, “This is a tale of beginnings and ends, and all that lies between.  This is a tale of becoming, for forgiveness, or moving on.  This is a tale of me…and you.”  Ugh.  I just can’t abide this type of storytelling.  I could write 1000 words about how weak it is to warn us that you’re about to tell a seriously deep story and that we need to pay attention or else we’ll miss it.  I don’t have a problem with deep stories or stories that make you “work for it”, but I DO have a problem with writers who feel the need to announce the impending deepness with flourishes of jiber-jaber language.  Get over yourself and just tell the damn story…