Jak
Had gotten this a while back through a Kickstarter that Simon Stålenhag had done for this project. Been meaning to read it for a while but kept on forgetting. Finally sat down to read. Despite the length, I finished it pretty quickly; it's mostly art/imagery, and the narrative story is actually very short. The art, of course, was great, though the story was relatively simple. I wish more had been fleshed out with the backstory and setting, as it was super interesting but very lightly touched on. All in all, pretty solid. I liked how the thing with the boy wasn't, like, "oh aliens took him over and made him do it", it was just simple revenge for an awful act. Although it DOES lean a bit too hard on "trauma makes you crazy", such as the scenes with him creepily typing into a DOS prompt.
Had gotten this a while back through a Kickstarter that Simon Stålenhag had done for this project. Been meaning to read it for a while but kept on forgetting. Finally sat down to read. Despite the length, I finished it pretty quickly; it's mostly art/imagery, and the narrative story is actually very short. The art, of course, was great, though the story was relatively simple. I wish more had been fleshed out with the backstory and setting, as it was super interesting but very lightly touched on. All in all, pretty solid. I liked how the thing with the boy wasn't, like, "oh aliens took him over and made him do it", it was just simple revenge for an awful act. Although it DOES lean a bit too hard on "trauma makes you crazy", such as the scenes with him creepily typing into a DOS prompt.