Metronome
by Veronique Tanaka
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Author: Veronique TanakaEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05
ISBN: 156163526X
Number of pages: 64
Publisher: ComicsLit
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Book Review: A thousand images, one story
Summary: 5 Stars
Tanaka's debut graphic novel doesn't look like any other you've seen. Every page follows the same pattern: a four by four grid of black and while panels, drawn in plain lines and solid blacks or grays. It brings to mind the uniform array of cels on movie film, an analogy that points out some of the cinematic techniques used to pull the reader along.
Unlike a movie, this jumps from frame to frame with a syncopation that belies the regular rhythm of the layout. Then, interpolating a story line between these jagged points of data, we follow the wild ups and downs between a young man and woman. A few lovemaking scenes mean this book isn't for kids, and maybe not for some grownups either. It never falls into the "adult" category, though - these passages suggest more than they show, and fit naturally into the lives of handsome young adults.
If you want a new kind of reading experience in wordless graphic novels, give this one a try. The "relationships" aspect widens its appeal to female readership that might otherwise skips over comics; it's look and pace feel like nothing else around. Only Nate Powell's work comes close, but carries itself in a very different way. I look forward to more work by this first-time author, lots more.
-- wiredweird
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