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Title: Kabuki: Metamorphosis by David Mack ISBN: 1-58240-170-5 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: December, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Compelling visual narrative
Comment: The Kabuki series creates and sustains a visual intensity that has to be seen to be believed. If nothing else, the range of media is incredible - one image might contain watercolor, collage, lettering, and computer processing. The next might be three or four other media.
This is not a book to read once and put down. It deserves more than one reading, maybe many readings, to capture everything in this story. The plot itself is well done but ordinary. It's the imagery that can't be absorbed at one sitting, including lettering and private notes. These additional texts don't drive the story along the plot line. They do, however, sustain the mood and express the characters' inner experience of their situation. There is no clear dividing line between text and artwork, though.
Other artists may use experimental media and non-linear text as a substitute for technical skill. Mack uses the media to express his skill - his drawing is outstanding, and he clearly has a passion for figure.
I have many favorites among comics, each for different reasons. Mack's Kabuki is a favorite among my favorites.
Rating: 5
Summary: Kabuki: Metamorphosis
Comment: Frankly, a piece of comicdom art-- a real groundbreaker. This graphic novel, and the whole Kabuki series, moves comics into areas that the genre should have been going for years-- namely, using the art form for one of the things it can do best-- telling a story visually. Mack's ability to bring together both the story itself, and _how_ that story is told into one, completely interdependent form is amazing. The full color paintings and ink drawings that Mack does are beautiful and visually compelling, and his use of the whole page (versus simple panel by panel exposition) is refreshing and well worth the time one can spend poring over a page looking for all his details. The story itself, a dark one of beautiful assassin "secret agents", is nether here nor there. However, what he does with that vehicle is mezmerizing. The depth of Kabuki's character is real, what she experiences internally is real, and the growth she moves through is real. Get it just to see what a graphic novel really can be-- an art form entirely its own, a merging of visual and literary mediums. Read it over and over to be awash in an obvious labor of love. Psychologically engaging, visually stunning. It's unlike any other comic I've seen yet-- transcends the comic genre, even as it moves the genre into a new level.
Rating: 5
Summary: review
Comment: This is possibly the best Western graphic novel that I have ever read. The artwork is phenomenal-- David Mack is an amazing artist-- and the layout/storyline is incredibly designed. There are so many levels to this book, and it is very involving. It can be appreciated for its genius, its art, its characters, its symbolism, and its depth. It tells the story of Kabuki, an inspiring woman, from a very personal and unique point of view. The way it is written is so incredibly real that you can't help but get involved. You will fall in love with the artwork and the people and every time you read it you will get more out of it.
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Title: Kabuki: Skin Deep by David Mack ISBN: 1582401500 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Kabuki: Mask of the Noh by David Mack, Terry Moore ISBN: 158240108X Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Kabuki: Circle of Blood by David Mack, Connie Jiang ISBN: 1887279806 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Kabuki Scarab by David Mack, Rick Mays ISBN: 1582402582 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Endless Nights (The Sandman, Book 11) by Neil Gaiman ISBN: 1401200893 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 17 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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