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Title: Metamorphis (Kabuki, Book 5) by David Mack ISBN: 1-58240-203-5 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Shatteringly beautiful art, mind-shattering innerlogue
Comment: David Mack worries me. He's taken the art of drawing comics to a whole new genius dimension. Nobody else has ever welded story and image like this, with so many ways to express everything: museum-quality watercolors, perfect pencil drawings, spiraling text, doodles, origami, abstracts, traditional japanese inks. New ways to show movement, memory, fights. One fight is drawn in calligraphy on a sheet of music; another is laid out as a board game; another is caught in the blur of a black-and-white video camera shooting in the dark. All this, while his heroine is trapped in a mental asylum for former female spies and assassins.
Here's a warning: fans of action/adventure, this book is not for you: move on to the next Kabuki volume, Scarab. And if you've read Skin Deep and are waiting for the story to move on, you find yourself in a long, almost demented version of the previous book. Kabuki makes her padded cell into a cocoon and slowly, obsessively rehashes personal elements of identity. Her metamorphosis occurs gradually as she transcends her mistrust of herself and her fear and longing for her past, by accepting gifts from another inmate, discovering the beauty of her own acts and story, sharing herself with her enemy. But that's a terribly flat way to put it.
The way David Mack does it, he can wring your soul out by chiseling in layer after layer of philosophical questions answered in a variety of metaphors. He brings new meaning to the term, tortured writer, and very nearly locks himself down and his readers with him in the asylum. He narrowly escapes at the end of the book, but not until he's imprinted on your mind both the pain and uncommon beauty that genius, whatever form it takes, carves into people. Glad you made it out alive and well, David. Thank you and take care.
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Title: Kabuki Scarab by David Mack ISBN: 1582402582 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Kabuki: Circle of Blood by David Mack, Connie Jiang ISBN: 1887279806 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Kabuki: Mask of the Noh (Kabuki) by David Mack, Terry Moore ISBN: 158240108X Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Kabuki: Skin Deep (Kabuki) by David Mack ISBN: 1582401500 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Kabuki Dreams (VOL. 2) by David Mack ISBN: 1582401772 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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