Marquet, Thomas C. – Bland Like Water

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Bland Like Water

Ah, where to start. This book looks great. I love the sparse style of drawing that this guy has, and I’ve already said that I’m a big fan of the solid blacks. The story is broken up into a lot of little stories, I guess, but none of them have a title so I can’t really break them up and talk easily about them for you. It doesn’t matter, everything comes back to the beginning in the end and makes sense. It has kind of an early Chris Ware feel to it in his placement of panels and just the way that parts of the book move. A theme of constant searching pervades the book, as well as a strange canonization of conformity at times, but I might be making that up. Regardless, there’s a lot more going on here than what you see on the surface, and it bears repeated readings. This from the man who just bought this, but I think it’s true. This guy has a chance to be great if he keeps putting out minis (or books of any kind) like this, so why don’t you send him a few dollars and support him?