From the creator of MURDER-FALCON and WONDER WOMAN: DEAD EARTH comes the wrestling adventure of the decade! A conti fatti era l’unica cosa che le interessava fare, era sola al mondo e giacché era anche senza soldi non usciva molto. The story jumps around a lot and we move onto new characters before we get to know anyone. It felt very surface level with the relationships and I wish we spent more time on a small cast of characters as opposed to being rapidly introduced to a larger cast of new ones. Incarcerated. Retired. Dead. Nothing's gonna stop these Rogues from getting theirs, as the Flash’s deadly enemies come out of retirement for one last—and potentially fatal—score!

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Christopher Chance has 12 days to solve his own murder! Superstar writer Tom King and acclaimed artist Greg Smallwood team for a new, noir examination of a classic DC character! THERE IS A GIRL. She has no memory and no name. Nothing but a GUARDIAN. An armored giant who protects her from predators and pitfalls. Billie Scott is a young woman who lives in shared housing, but keeps to herself, holing up in her room and focusing on honing her art at the cost of human relations and, indeed, being out in the world. Two major events slam her at the same time — she has the opportunity for her first gallery show and has to create a body of work in a limited amount of time, but she also finds out that some vision problems she’s recently encountered point to impending blindness. This is a very impressive debut by Zoe Thorogood at only 21 years old. The artwork has crisp lines and often is accompanied only by one accent color at a time, as we follow Billie and the interesting folks she meets, and who impact her in different ways, as she travels around London. The bittersweet message about the power of creating art - creating something new - no matter what, along with the positive messaging about not letting one's disability hamper one's life, is a powerful one and uniquely told in this story. Admittedly, it was a little bit on the nose at the end, but it worked overall. The reveal of the 10 paintings at the end had great payoff. Billie Scott is an artist who just got her big break— right before finding out she'll be blind in two weeks.psychedelia-esque curves represent smoke and musical vibrations, which seems suitable given that smoke and music, both ephemeral materials, have often been used as metaphors for each other. The visual language Thorogood develops throughout the book to denote music is employed at a later stage in a moment where the comic attempts to show something that is invisible through visual signs. It is an impressive effort to achieve something so counterintuitive. Zoe Thorogood's first graphic novel is spectacular. Her art has sophisticated echoes of Egon Schiele and Æon Flux/Peter Chung, with incredibly grounded storytelling. It's the mix of the two that makes this book so engaging. I devoured it in one sitting. A bit too predictable. Good, but like not as good as it’s lonely at the center of the earth -zoe thorogood A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagnosis journeys to finding community—from autistic contributors.

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It was so mediocre and silly it didn’t even make me feel anything especially negative, or feel at all. I have seen really profound original things created by young people these days, so I can’t take the age and inexperience as an excuse.

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The story follows a young adult (I don't actually know how old she is) artist who has been granted gallery space for ten paintings. Only, when she goes out to find subjects, she gets injured and begins going blind as a result. Now she only has a few weeks to make ten paintings, so she goes around different cities to find people to paint. There were so many interesting characters. I especially loved Rachel, because of how unapologetic she was with performing her music. I wish I was that confident in my writing. If you had one wish…what would you wish for? What if everyone else on the planet had one wish too? That’s EIGHT BILLION GENIES. It’s surprising that given all the bad things that may well happen over the next twelve months, many of the negative effects of which will mostly affect younger generations, a new book by a relatively young author delivers a positive visualization of the present and near future. Perhaps this is going to be our new survival mechanism moving forward, it’s not like dour realism has helped us much in a material sense. Unlike Scott, I’m not sure art can change the world, not in the way she implies here. What I can say is that art represents how people are thinking, and it’s an impressive and positive sign as to the resilience of both an emerging generation and the artistic impulse that The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott presents a UK where all the stuff that matters still matters.

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The houseless people we do meet are mostly extremely kind souls with several of them seeming to live on the streets... By choice? By the end of the comic one of them is somehow in uni, another has published three books, and yet another has bought a business and is now gathering huge crowds of customers. A few cheesy unoriginal passages about how life doesn’t stop at your hobby and that people can be interesting on a series of cute drawings, and this boring (and thankfully short) story is done.

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A woman with severe social anxiety has been accepted at a gallery, only while she’s making the paintings, she’s mugged, with the result being impending blindness. The main journey is her struggle to figure out if she wants to, or if it’s viable to complete the gallery showing beforehand. As a depiction of young friendship, Billie Scott is great, just don’t expect too much from it about blindness. In fact, the impending blindness of the title works out to be not much more than a MacGuffin. As Scott herself says near the end: "this journey was never about my blindness.” It seems a shame that a story about a visual artist going on a road trip to ‘find what they’re looking for’ while going blind doesn’t utilize the allegorical and metaphorical resonances that blindness as a literary device offers. Christopher Chance has 12 days to solve his own murder! Superstar writer Tom King and acclaimed artist Greg Smallwood continue the noir examination of a classic DC character!

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Did I stay up way too late reading this in one sitting as I could not put it down? YEP. Is Zoe Thorogood the future of comics? Yea, probably? Weird question, sorry, why would I ask that. Oh, it’s because everything Thorogood does is so goddamn engrossing that I just want to shout about it to everyone. Which I have been doing at the bookstore anytime someone so much as glances at the graphic novel section. But for real, The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott from Zoe Thorogood is a delight. We follow runaway artist Billie who, on the cusp of their big break with a gallery showing, is the victim of random violence that leaves her going blind. With only weeks before her eyesight is gone, she sets out to make 10 portraits and keep her artistic dreams alive, facing the cruelty of living on the streets but having meaningful conversations and making lasting friends along the way. This is a moving story, with lots of ups and downs and emotional grit that really sinks its claws into you. Like the way a cat will climb up your leg and you think “ow!” but then “aw” because it snuggles up in your lap and you love cats. This book is like if that cat was art, all brought to life through Thorogood’s incredible artwork and humor.

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I hated and misunderstood why Billie is choosing to be homeless? Like she has an apartment and made friends with her housemates but then she just leaves and lives on the street when she doesn’t have to. It felt like it was meant to be quirky, and it was unnecessary. tratta di una lettura a fumetti molto carina, con personaggi freschi e ben delineati. E che dire delle illustrazioni, sono fantastiche It really says something that I wanted to DNF this graphic novel very very badly. Usually with graphic novels, while they might be boring they are enjoyable enough for me by means of the art to get through. But this one really frustrated me.