Other awesome things in the book: - Multiple text sections that expand the universe - Echoing motifs in the book. The symbols of faces and clocks, especially. - A whole chapter that has an entirely symmetrical layout from the inside out -- to the point where the same characters interact on the same pages they were on the other side of the comic - A six-page spread after the climax that's, honestly, in context one of the most horrifying and sad upsetting things I've ever read EVER.
I mean, I say this seriously: this book is art. It was intended to be art and intended to expand the respectability of comics. It won a Hugo. It got on TIME's 100 Novels of the Century (the only comic to do so). It's definitely the book I would give to anybody who says, "Oh, I don't read superhero comics."
So ... yeah, there's a lot of reasons why this is a big deal.
See, I told you ...
- Multiple text sections that expand the universe
- Echoing motifs in the book. The symbols of faces and clocks, especially.
- A whole chapter that has an entirely symmetrical layout from the inside out -- to the point where the same characters interact on the same pages they were on the other side of the comic
- A six-page spread after the climax that's, honestly, in context one of the most horrifying and sad upsetting things I've ever read EVER.
I mean, I say this seriously: this book is art. It was intended to be art and intended to expand the respectability of comics. It won a Hugo. It got on TIME's 100 Novels of the Century (the only comic to do so). It's definitely the book I would give to anybody who says, "Oh, I don't read superhero comics."
So ... yeah, there's a lot of reasons why this is a big deal.