James's review
Acme Novelty Library #18
by Chris Ware
James's review
Acme Novelty Library #18 by Chris Ware
James's review
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graphic-novel
This is everything you would expect from an installment in Ware's Acme Novelty Library. This is, apparently, the first of a three part series each about a different tenant in a three floor apartment. This story, centered around the past 10 years of the life of a lonely one legged girl in her late twenties who left dreams of being an artist and now works in a flower shop pretty much sounds like it would find its way to the bottom of just about any recommended reading list. But this is Chris Ware, whose mundaneness is juxtaposed with some of the most beautifully colored and cleverly arranged comic panels in the genre, that what would be a cliche' downer of a tale transforms itself into a vibrant epic of a wrecking ball on the readers empathy. This is, arguably one of the most heartbreaking of all of Chris Ware's work that I've read (which is admittedly not that much), but I think it's now my favorite. Though it can be read in one sitting, make sure you take it all in, the pictures a...more
