John, Dear by Laura Lannes6/8/2023 ![]() Certain pages are so deeply inked that faces vanish and reappear depending upon the lighting one reads them in. But it is literal as well, and Lannes wields it like no one else in comics. It is figurative, in that it is about the mortification of intimate relationships and the implacable advance of control one person can exert over another. ![]() This is, above all, a story about darkness. Ryan Carey, in The Comics Journal's Best Comics of 2018 She’s channeling something held so deeply inside here that I honestly don’t know how she got through the making of it without having a complete nervous breakdown - certainly reading it will bring you right up to the threshold of one yourself. ![]() ![]() without question the most soul-shattering release of 2018, its ingenious marriage of physical, psychological, emotional, and sexual abuse with established tropes of the “body horror” genre carving you out (…) and don’t even get me started on the sheer power of Lannes’ gorgeously-dark graphite illustrations. ![]()
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