Welllllll
I haven’t posted because I’ve been dead from work since last week. Working for the government is enough to make you libertarian. Anyway, I decided to relax with a dram of scotch and a very excellent manga.
This particular mangaka always seems to include a chapter or two that’s a self-contained story, always very beautiful and affecting. Usually someone dies. In about two chapters, the mangaka introduces a character, makes you care about them, and wraps it all up in a delicious tragedy. It’s both a little break from the main story and a compression of the themes, and sometimes a beautiful flight of fancy too.
I’m on that chapter right now.
Edit: based on an offhand comment that one character looks like an Archie Comics design, ‘grid asked me to map various characters to their Archie counterparts. Here’s a sample of my humourous wit: the one corresponding to Chuck is “totally underplayed and you just know he’s secretly pissed about it. But he can’t express it because he lives in fucking Riverdale.” Yeah, that’s about it.
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advancedclass
advancedclass Said:
on September 15, 2009 at 22:56
Except, I think, for in something like HAPPY? where the entire storyarc is reported to be like those little self-contained chapters of death and misery.
(But does it compare to the one in the mangaka’s other work about the soldier and the little girl?)