I think this is the first time I’m posting something “serious”. Or at least the most true to my mindset thing I’ve posted on here. I mean I write things I’m thinking about down all the time and then I pretty much pare them down into “toots”. Anyway here’s this one. fresh off the dome. I didn’t even edit it an uncut gem. ha.
Here’s the page i referenced earlier, where Cooke splits up one image into nine panels to suggest a chronology. this is cooke at the height of his powers, and it works on every conceivable level. it has a lot of weight behind it with the context of the full issue too
The appearance of doctor manhattan right towards the end is genius. The “symbol” that he chose for himself is obscured by his hand but you see every piece of the weapon he’s disassembling. that’s the real meaning, that’s his real legacy. also it’s drawn from the point of view of the person holding the gun. a metaphor for Hollis Mason and the Minutemen becoming completely useless. A suggestion that you, the reader, are as powerless in the face of the system as Hollis is when he cuts the book down
Entering the avatar program to organize hip-hop battles using state of the art deep sea diving/underwater motion tracking/cutting edge motion capture technology
I’m just saying... don’t get mad at me for this until you’ve heard how well it flows together
I mean this is Le Carré’s latest book. i can’t wait to read it it seems nuts