Dave Stewart's Walk in 1

by Dave Stewart (Creator), Jeff Parker, Ashish Padlekar (Artist)

Do you experience missing time? Predict strangers' dreams? Do twins seem to follow you wherever you go? And do you sometimes see cephalopods attached to other people without their knowledge? Don't worry, you're not going mad... yet. You're simply a Walk-In. Ian Dormouse is losing time - literally. He wakes up in cities across the world, and has no recollection of how he got there or what occurred in the preceding weeks and months. Awaking from one of these blackouts, Ian finds himself in Moscow and stumbles into the burlesque club Deja Vu, bluffing his way into a job as a dream interpreter. It wasn't all bull, Ian actually does have visions - octopuses on people's shoulders, auras emanating around strangers, to name a few. Ian doesn't know it yet, but he has some crazy mental abilities and it's about to make life a whole lot weirder...

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

144 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2006

About the author

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There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name


Stewart is known for his work at Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics, as well as coloring Tim Sale's art in Heroes. He has been recognized for his work with the Eisner Award for Coloring in 2003, 2005, 2007–2011, 2013, 2015, and 2020.

Reviews

[Elin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite a lot better than the cover led me to believe it would be. Honestly I think the cover art is doing this a disservice. It very nearly got filtered out by my automatic "This looks like it objectifies women" filter that is absolutely critical when shopping for graphic novels, unfortunately.

But despite some characters being strippers, it doesn't devolve into the sordid- and the art is better than it seems on the outside too.

It's a creative and entertaining story, although I think it trails off a bit at the end and starts to lose its way. Still worth reading as something a bit different.

It's also quite long so feels like good value for money (even though I picked it up secondhand!)

[Esteban Sarmiento · Rating 3 out of 5]

Amazing beginning and concept. The final was just awful and ruin everything.

[Marissa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Don't run out to find a copy but if you find yourself bored at my house, sure, give it a read. Dave Stewart (yes, of the Eurythmics) outsourced his idea to Jeff Parker, who in turn outsourced it to the Virgin Comics staff. (Parker only illustrated the final issue. Because reasons?)

So if the story is a bit choppy (drags in places, races in others) I wouldn't even know who to blame, because I assume this book was edited by a hydra or something.

Anyway. Guy experiences temporal displacement, befriends strippers, discovers self to be most important man in alternate dimension. Also, there are octopi.

[Greg · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wasn't really expecting to like this very much. It was a pretty bizarre premise and no matter how many times I read the cover and front matter, I couldn't figure out who exactly wrote/created/illustrated the thing. By the end, however, I thought a pretty decent world with some interesting characters had been developed. I thought it clearly based some ideas off of Sandman but took it in a very different direction. Overall, not mind-blowing but it didn't outright bore me either.