Violent Cases
ISBN:
9781852869854 (1852869852)
Publisher: Titan Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Novels,
Mystery,
Crime,
Horror,
Short Stories,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comic Book
In Violent Cases, Gaiman and McKean explore the flawed nature of memory. The narrator attempts to recall his childhood visits with an osteopath, but these reflections bring him no closer to discovering the "true" version of the events in question. Instead, the memories remain skewed by time and subj...
Well, it's a very short graphic novel, and it's in the classic style of Gaiman (the term so often used seems so fitting: "Lyric").The story is that of a story and the telling of stories itself. I think the problem for me is one of my looking (hoping) for something that the book never wants or intend...