Tongue, Vol. 1. 1
cartoonist: Anders Nelson
Publisher: Pantheon Graphic Library
release date: March 2025
On a purely aesthetic level, Tongue, Vol. 1. 1 go through Anders Nelson It’s the best comic I’ve read this year. Nilsen’s lines and colors are stylish and original, capable of presenting a wonderful sequence of sequences in some desert wastelands that wish to be named. I’m not familiar with this book personally Tongue, Discovering that Nilsen has been serializing in sales of five paperbacks, dating back to 2017, I was shocked by the look of these comics on the first page. It’s not just a work of art. Nilsen’s graphic design is also top-notch, using a chunky hardcover format, and this new roll in offers some really cool physical touches (I won’t spoil it here).
What I do know about this book, however, is that it is a recreation/modernization of Prometheus’ Greek mythology and joins it along with other narratives. A man follows a aimless American traveler abroad, wandering in the above-mentioned desert (bad) with a teddy bear tied to his back. The third story is an orphan East African girl who dispatches an assassination mission and is joined by a talking chicken. I’m not giving up anything here because it’s all in detail before you start.
And, in fact, I don’t think readers need to know either before they even begin. It might help if you are the type of person who fights unspeakable or ethereal storytelling. exist Tongue, Nilsen deploys narrative disorientation, but he does it throughout the process, using it to attract it rather than frustrate the reader. Have confidence Tongue And trust in readers can serve well. Confidence is that visual touches like a teddy bear on the back, or a chicken talking is enough to attract the audience (they are), and trust is the point the audience will connect between the various elements in the book.
Indeed, like Tongue, Vol. 1. 1 Progress We begin to see all these characters are related to some crises, including violence and reckless behaviors throughout humanity, and the gods to stop or protect them. However, I am more grateful for the clever way of the book being thematic connection, so I missed it the first time, but I missed it the first time when I flipped through the book after reading it. Tongue is one of the well-structured stories, with the earliest pages representing greater narrative interests, such as the best literary novels.
The books open, a bird flying over an unnamed desert. With the focus, we see the strange trap of modern warfare, the kind of life that Americans have basically all the century and (presumably) all the book readers. You can see it in the preview page included in this piece, but we see the sand Hummer next to the crater next to the shell explosion, and eventually the open body. Soon, this scenario involves animal selection of violence and surplus, abandoned technology. It is an effective opening scene that can attract audiences and is also a masterful theme for many of the upcoming events and ideas.
It’s just a sign to my book. It looks good and attractive, but it’s just a veneer. Under that thoughtful storytelling layer. I also think this order is as good as these preview pages as any argument Tongue Not to retell a myth, not to be true. Of course, that’s there, but Prometheus’s myth is more of a prominent point in a very modern story. Of course, this is the modernization of that familiar myth, but if I had to guess, I would imagine Nelson to Tongue All these threads will be pushed to new places, which can only be achieved through the world knowledge we live in now.
Nilsen also patiently worked hard to create the book, and its 350-page page takes about eight years to complete. This is related Tongue It is a book about humanity and its relationship to technology, just as before the Prometheus myth. While Nilsen made these comics, technology continued to speed up him and it quickly. How is it possible for a person to know if the final destination of this book will also develop in real time? (Although Nelson recently told Beat Volume 2 may get here faster. )
Overall, if it’s not clear, I think Tongue Become one of the must-read graphic novels for 2025, this is an incredible, fun and ruthless comic that will entertain and question readers with equal turns. It’s also a big book, and you may get lost as you slowly walk through it, taste the story, and let creative choices and poetic vision flourish.
Tongue, Vol. 1. 1Available now from Pantheon Graphic Library
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