Time of Death
You Should Know Better
Reading Comics Into Adulthood
Most of us are not so daring that we would wear a mask and cape in public, even if we were secretly sworn to defend earth from an alien invasion from a post on an uncle’s humble farm.
One of my favorite tricks in stories these days is to blur the line between fantasy and reality. Instead of the punishable-by-death “it was all just a dream” sequence, smart artists let worlds bleed into each other. Scott Pilgrim does this wonderfully, Terry Gilliam is an old master, Synecdoche, New York does it so well it starts to bleed out of the screen and into your real life.
Lemire’s characters feel drawn with a furious hand, lending legitimacy to the brutal undercurrent. After this and the last post on OZ, I’ve decided that clean lines are for suckers. Mark decided this too. You may notice a change in the most recent Incomplete comic. Clean lines are something for Hollywood, coupled with plastic, smoothed emotions. A mom gone from cancer, a fallen hockey hero: these are the elements for the rocky transition from adolescence into adulthood, and should be scribbled accordingly.
There is also, of course, the ever present guilt of liking things that you should have grown out of a long time ago, you know, the theme of this entire blog. Who among us wouldn’t wear a cape?
Recommended to: people on farms, hockey buffs, anyone who has pretended to fly
-CMH
April 25th, 2009 at 2:40 am
i wonder how he got out of the pig
April 25th, 2009 at 4:57 am
you don’t wanna know…
April 25th, 2009 at 9:53 am
If she succeeds, Willow will be killed by the alliance.
April 25th, 2009 at 10:42 am
So… He’ll become an undying undead. Weird.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
I.. Well, uh.. Too confusing. @#$! it.
April 26th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
isn’t he technically an undead already? i mean hes died and come back to life, just my little take on it =P
-The New Guy
April 27th, 2009 at 6:22 am
lol i just started reading ur comics,i realy like the rez sick line of comics better than the other ones on the site,when i saw this comic posted on WoW.com i was like…um…what odes it mean.but now i inderstand,but yeah,HURRY UP AND POST ANOTHER DANG REZ SICK COMIC BEFORE I GO INSANE!
April 27th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Good news, Adrian. There’s a Rez Sick marathon on the horizon. More Willow than you can shake a stick at.
April 27th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
yeah,i realy like the rez sick comics,but wheres it goin? why does he have a undead girlfrend?
April 27th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
and well….im just taking a wild guess here but,im guessing mini is gona turn willow into a undead,then hes goan getmad,break up with her,then get killed by like leroy or somthing,or maby right when shes gona turn him into a scurge,he wakes up,and hes mad that she tried to zombify him
April 27th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
and uh the fat guy from the incompletes,what relm is his night elf on?i wana show him whos boss,i beat my freind callidor who has t7 gear,and i only gots 4 epics,rest are blues
May 1st, 2009 at 9:35 pm
It took some flipping back and forth, but I can see the change in The Incompletes comic now. I dig the new style - what kid (especially with a mop like Christian’s) doesn’t have a mess of fly-aways? I’m absolute rubbish in the visual arts, but it seems more organic some how - captures the bloody knees and dirty fingernails of childhood summers that end too quickly. Nice work.
Growing up is overrated. Keep the cape, guys.
August 8th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Awh second time Willow gets killed by an abomination.
August 8th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Abomi-what? I must have thought of WoW there. I meant deady bear ofcourse