{"id":379,"date":"2008-04-28T00:52:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T00:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullcull.wordpress.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2008-04-28T00:52:35","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T00:52:35","slug":"comicsphere-stray-bullets-12-by-david-lapham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Comicsphere: Stray Bullets 1&2 by David Lapham"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The exploration of violence in these two volumes takes many twists and turns. The first volume struck me as being more grounded but both of them have a resonant emotional core that connects with the reader on a very visceral level.<\/p>\n

To say that something is filmic is over-used and perhaps misguided when it comes to comics, but using it as a shorthand that most people will understand I think it works to a degree here. I read to understand the human condition and I think the degree of appreciation that I have for a piece of art depends upon the amount of illumination it offers on that subject. These books never disappoint on that score.<\/p>\n

Every single character from foreground to background is well drawn and seems to say — there are no background characters. That seems a fitting attitude for a book called Stray Bullets<\/em> where anyone might be a victim — anyone might be collateral damage; a world where everyone is innocent and therefore everyone is guilty: it obliterates such easy distinctions.<\/p>\n

The second volume contains more pieces that might be thought of as flights of fancy — things that throw the paint on the canvas in a slightly different way; that approach the question of what it is to be human from a different angle. You are never less than convinced that the worlds you are stepping into are real and that is some feat. A friend I lent these to handed them back saying they were \\”too real\\”, meaning the violence … I think that is a great recommendation. To believe that what occurs has consequence; that what happens is real. These are books you should read — they are books you should own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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