Shane Simmons is a fool. One day you will be told "what does the majority of people in front of a comic book?" and after a nice smoke cane you will be answered "Law in the balloon to know." I remember many years ago, too many years ago, a friend of mine in the fifth high school that took over the then invaluable to me last number of Dylan Dog, looked at the first three pages and, disgusted expression, ruled "but what kind of comics? does not speak any!". In fact they were often only designs, perhaps with some desperate pursuit final death so dear to horror international and domestic Old boy. My friend in high school, then I judged that an imbecile like few others, looking at this mini book of Shane Simmons, published by Proglio could not be restrained by the exclamation "Hey, what kind of comics? No drawings! ".
Yes, because "Longshot Comics , or" L long and useful life of Roland Gethers "is a casbah of tiny vignettes (there are 80 per page, for a total of 3840) in which there is no place for nothing more than points ( characters ), segments ( connections between characters and what they say ), balloon ( without the "cloud" and with few words, those who enter into a micro vignette ) , captions ( rare: they look like the titles of the scenes in silent films ), onomatopoeia ( occasional , used at times convulsive ) and some effect "special" ( explosions, beams of light in mines, gunfire, pools of blood, coffins ). all.
The challenge of "Longshot Comics ( about: longshot recalls the long-range used in every panel ) is to narrate, with these tools at least poor and least binding, the entire, long life protagonist, a Welshman who was born not so intelligent miner, he learned the rudiments of accounting, fought bravely in two wars, knows the pleasures of the flesh and the delights of marriage, it generates its contribution to the British crown to the glorious sons, ages and, as a natural course of things, pull the bucket.
Well what to say: "Longshot Comics " wins. Anything goes, do not you get tired of reading, he laughs and giggles ( with moments of very dark humor ), follow the last years of the life of Roland sadly, it is greeted with a principle of tear. It 's a little comic but incredibly dense, and then the volume is the classic comic snob freak shows to his friends wanting to appear truly original. remind Lucca : my eyes wandered to the stand Proglio after talking with Sagramola, intercepted the brochure, I leafed through it and I drew a wry smile on his face. I already knew (like a good comic maniac snob ) of wanting to, but anyway I asked an opinion to stand assistant in front of me, I said dry " my opinion is a masterpiece." What would you tell me? What sucked?
The perfidy of this comic is that you do not feel really agree, to tell you too " masterpiece" hell, elsewhere there are those who sweat seven shirts for a table, daring shots studies, devotes days day to stretch or lighting effects. Yes, of course, is that Simmons has given birth to everything in one night: limiting the number of words spoken in each vignette should have meant more than a few headaches during the organization of the narrative, but ...
... but NOTHING! I highly recommend " Longshot Comics " means the stand assistant Proglio Lucca had reason. Give her or buy it (costs only 4.90 € ), you will not regret. point.
