{"id":704,"date":"2019-10-04T10:51:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T08:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erikawinterlia.winterlia.se\/web\/?p=704"},"modified":"2019-10-04T10:51:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T08:51:44","slug":"at-the-end-of-your-tether","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/?p=704","title":{"rendered":"At the End of Your Tether"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by V. V. Glass, Adam Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s one word that perfectly summarizes my feelings towards this graphic novel, and that\u2019s confusing. I have no idea what I just read, and despite giving it my best effort there was nothing that explained the complex plot in this book in a way that made it understandable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea is wonderful, the art it great, but the biggest problem here is that the dialogue doesn\u2019t seem to fit with the images, there\u2019s no natural flow between the different frames and it\u2019s impossible to keep up with what\u2019s happening. One moment we\u2019re learning that Arlo has disappeared from her home, but the next frame jumps back in time and without explanation we\u2019re given what appears to be a completely random scene from the past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It all starts in the 1st chapter, and I didn\u2019t understand a thing. There wasn\u2019t anything cohesive about the chapter and I actually had to stop and make sure that it wasn\u2019t a case of formatting gone crazy on my computer. The dialogue didn\u2019t match up, and it seemed as if the characters answered the wrong questions. So odd. I still decided to keep reading and I had high hopes for a clear continuation and a common thread that\u2019d bind the story together. For the first few pages I kind of got than, but then it all got super confusing again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m still not sure if it\u2019s a case of pages getting mixed in formatting or what, but none the less, this novel is way too confusing, which is too bad considering the idea is super interesting. At the end I kind of got what was going on and I understood the explanations there, that still didn\u2019t make the all the random frames any clearer though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A minor detail that also bugged me was how a video game in the beginning had the text Super Nintendo on it, but the console it belonged to was clearly a NES and not Super Nintendo. Like I said, very minor detail, but I love the NES and I can\u2019t help but get bothered by the inconsistency there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll still give this graphic novel two stars because if a great concept and beautiful art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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