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scans_dailyIt's six issues of twentieth century alternate history - two issues in, it's the Soviet Union and Afghanistan and the United States and superpowers and super-technology.
It manages the scopes of geopolitics and the psyches of those involved in a wonderfully distant way - it lays those things bare without verbal or visual restraint, progressing through its beats at a constant speed.
There are moments that invite the reader to pause, but they're not lingered on - the subsequent progressions from those moments are natural continuations, but in a " clean break " way. This discreteness extends to the pacing of each issue's overall plot so far - they've read like sequences of smaller two-to-multi-page stories.
Marshal Platonov, in armor that he'd designed himself, stepped in and ended the dispute.
' I run the war. '
(Platonov and Azra's relationship is established over multiple panels, no one outsize in comparison to the others.)
Platonov's exit was interrupted by news at an incident in Jalalabad - one he went to personally investigate.
He opened the heart..
.. and found it hollow.
In the United States, two old acquaintances met again.
Tom - the president of the United States, the American Dream - asked Egon to come back to being " [America's] mad scientist ".
" .. this visit is costing taxpayers fifty-k, you know? "
" Is that a lot? "
Tom reacted to Egon's refusal.
Later that day, he made his speech.
Tom's speech and Azra's course ran parallel.
Tom declaimed, and Azra went to observe.
The issue ended on the promise of power's exercise played against power's exercise:
(Pagecount's 11 and a little over a half of 36 from issue #1 of 20th Century Men - issue #2 came out this week.
Writing's Deniz Camp, art's S. Morian (S for Stipan), letters're Aditya Bidikar, and publisher's Image.
Another book of Camp's is out this week, at Valiant - Bloodshot Unleashed #1, whose treatment of government-affiliated superhumans feels tonally congruent.)
It manages the scopes of geopolitics and the psyches of those involved in a wonderfully distant way - it lays those things bare without verbal or visual restraint, progressing through its beats at a constant speed.
There are moments that invite the reader to pause, but they're not lingered on - the subsequent progressions from those moments are natural continuations, but in a " clean break " way. This discreteness extends to the pacing of each issue's overall plot so far - they've read like sequences of smaller two-to-multi-page stories.
Marshal Platonov, in armor that he'd designed himself, stepped in and ended the dispute.
' I run the war. '
(Platonov and Azra's relationship is established over multiple panels, no one outsize in comparison to the others.)
Platonov's exit was interrupted by news at an incident in Jalalabad - one he went to personally investigate.
He opened the heart..
.. and found it hollow.
In the United States, two old acquaintances met again.
Tom - the president of the United States, the American Dream - asked Egon to come back to being " [America's] mad scientist ".
" .. this visit is costing taxpayers fifty-k, you know? "
" Is that a lot? "
Tom reacted to Egon's refusal.
Later that day, he made his speech.
Tom's speech and Azra's course ran parallel.
Tom declaimed, and Azra went to observe.
The issue ended on the promise of power's exercise played against power's exercise:
(Pagecount's 11 and a little over a half of 36 from issue #1 of 20th Century Men - issue #2 came out this week.
Writing's Deniz Camp, art's S. Morian (S for Stipan), letters're Aditya Bidikar, and publisher's Image.
Another book of Camp's is out this week, at Valiant - Bloodshot Unleashed #1, whose treatment of government-affiliated superhumans feels tonally congruent.)
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