It was Eisner nominated in 2018 and I guess won a MoCCA award per the cover. Storytelling clarity could be better in places, but it’s solid on mood and atmosphere. It’s very cool temperature colors on this one, but bold. It’s a pretty one! It’s a Peow Studios book and I just really dig the colors that crew achieves with their books– I don’t know if it’s how they print their books (It says it’s printed in Poland) or maybe it’s the paper– the paper feels really good but. More an art-driven experience– kind of a fast read if you’re not in the mood to linger– but the art does invite a linger. Very minimal in terms of dialogue or narration– mostly silent. What a pretty comic! Sterte has this whispy line, and the story is that sort of equally-whispy science fiction comic that’s more about a space being explored visually than the mechanics of plot? It’s about a giant space whale that’s died and showing the stages of it rotting as the world goes on around them– civilizations coming and going, etc. I finally sat down with Linnea Sterte’s Stages of Rot, which had been sitting on my To Read pile for a while.
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