Another in Fanfare’s “Experimental” comics series. In the John Byrne Hulk tale, the Green Machine is summoned to a medicine and somehow lured into a trap with a siamese twins-type pair of villains. The catch is that each page is a single panel and so narration, dialogue, and art must operate extra hard to tell a cohesive story with so little room to work.
Then, we’ve got a Captain America tale that squeezes in as many panels as possible. Why, there’s panels inside of panels. It makes for a massively fast-paced read. However, with all that space being used hyper-efficiently, the writer spends very little time making the supporting characters very interesting.
A novel concept that is enjoyable, though not without faults. That’s why these stories are experiments and not masterpieces.
Worth Consuming.
Rating: 7 out of 10 stars.
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