Supermarket
Written by Brian Wood
Art by Kristian Donaldson
2006
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With brightly coloured artwork that will dazzle your eyes with it's rich tones of pinks, oranges, greens and purples - this is a lovely-looking comic that unfortunately falls down slightly on the writing side: Brian Wood (the man responsible for DMZ and Demo) spins a story that at first seemed to be mounting some-sort of clever take on the experience of living in a world where everything is for sale (life is like a supermarket? or something?) - but it's over-reliance on standard gangster clichés and action scenes that look very nice - but go nowhere - means that it's ends up feeling like a fast food meal: tastes great - but full of empty calories. Oh well.
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Links: Graphic Novel Review, Comic Book Resources Article.
Further reading: Demo, DMZ.
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