Who knew that the tale of a modern day junkie could answer back to that of a prehistoric hunter-warrior so well?! All are woven into the wider picture, which uses a very poetic, slightly surreal stance, in combining each one. A shepherd out of a fable meets a miner direct from There Will be Blood. The characters range from an Athenian temple maid to a defender in the Crusades and beyond. This is a brilliant graphic novel, most noted for its intelligence, successfully met ambtitions, scope and humanity. However, the way they join up - everyone's figurative moment comes at once, at times the artist's heavy black ink makes all eighteen images coincide into one image - proves there is a separate, individual tale around and behind the others, one which will end with the most delightful moral - that the ability to be anything one imagines is in our DNA. With each page divided into a regular 3x3 grid there are eighteen images on each double page spread, and every one shows an episode, or a beat, of a different character's life in turn, from being a babe-in-arms to death. When reading this it soon becomes very clear we're reading not one, but nineteen, stories. Summary: A richly complex and strongly formatted graphic novel with a compelling spiritual heart.
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