I abandoned this after Part Two. This is a bit of a vanity project, mysterious and magical but disjointed and not particularly clear. Maybe I missed the point but, although the artwork is good enough, I wasn't enjoying it.
I got all 5 volumes to read and review but gave up partway through Volume 1. Taking place on a world of strange fantastical creatures, John Prophet has a mission to complete. In sepia tones, the illustrations are not brilliant and the story does not always make sense. I couldn't be bothered with it...
Not for me, this one. It's a surrealist story or stories based upon a strange collection of characters including a floating bespectacled fish: you get the idea. Black-and-white illustrations don't make it any better for me and it's just not my sort of comic collection. I'm sure that there are other ...
I have been waiting for something else by this guy since I grabbed [bc:Pop Gun War Volume 1|663861|Pop Gun War Volume 1|Farel Dalrymple|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1403202341s/663861.jpg|649927] from the library a few years back so when I saw this I was pretty excited. Have to say I didn't enjoy ...
I've been really lucky lately. I seem to have had a long string of excellent graphic novels in my "to read" pile. Pop Gun War is no exception. Farel Dalrymple's art is complex and expressive, not only in this work, but in others, as well. It's hard to pin down the plotline of Pop Gun War, as it is m...
This is definitely not up to par with Mignola's
Prophet is the multi-layered, possibly even multi-dimensional, story of the awakening of John Prophet in a variety of guises. Each John Prophet may or may not be a unique entity, which begs the question of who, or what, exactly is John Prophet? The strange tone of the story echos the sort of disasso...
I don't think I'm actually going to read this.
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