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Clockwork Watch: 1: The Arrival
56 pages, Paperback
Published June 1, 2012
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May 20, 2021
The dialog is not very good. It mostly consists of people have sudden outbursts. Also, some of the story doesn't make much sense. For example, a young Indian boy is at a museum and activates a mechanical man as a part of a public event. Then suddenly he's roaming the halls of the museum unsupervised with the clockwork man and is bullied by a children's street gang. What happened to the public event? Wouldn't press follow the boy to observe his interactions with the clockwork man? Why is the boy allowed to wander off with a priceless piece of technology? Why are children's street gangs hanging out in the museum? The story doesn't bother to answer these questions.
February 20, 2019
(I've also read volume 2, "Breakaway", for which there is no entry on Goodreads.)
So. I like the idea this book is going for - it's supposed to be a transmedia narrative experience, played out across three graphic novels (of which this is the first), interactive promenade theatre, live events, role-play, online adventures, an interactive book and a feature film. In that sense, it makes sense that the story told in this graphic novel isn't finished. This graphic novel ends on a cliffhanger, which I assume was picked up in these other forms of media. The cliffhanger doesn't get resolved in volume two; in fact, it isn't referred to even once. This is very disorienting, since I missed out on the story bits that were told in the other forms of media previously mentioned. I feel like I'm missing out on a good chunk of the story that the creators are trying to tell.
Other than that, the art is just beautiful and definitely this book's best feature - apart from the worldbuilding, which is also pretty great and interesting. I like the Victorian Colonial Indian aesthetic.
I also couldn't find any typos, which I am surprised by, since indie comics are usually full of them. So kudos on the editing.
All in all I can't really recommend this book to you... unless you feel like trying to find all the other bits of the story in the far corners of the internet. If that's your thing, then good luck to you. I hope you have fun trying to find the story, and that the story ends up being good.
So. I like the idea this book is going for - it's supposed to be a transmedia narrative experience, played out across three graphic novels (of which this is the first), interactive promenade theatre, live events, role-play, online adventures, an interactive book and a feature film. In that sense, it makes sense that the story told in this graphic novel isn't finished. This graphic novel ends on a cliffhanger, which I assume was picked up in these other forms of media. The cliffhanger doesn't get resolved in volume two; in fact, it isn't referred to even once. This is very disorienting, since I missed out on the story bits that were told in the other forms of media previously mentioned. I feel like I'm missing out on a good chunk of the story that the creators are trying to tell.
Other than that, the art is just beautiful and definitely this book's best feature - apart from the worldbuilding, which is also pretty great and interesting. I like the Victorian Colonial Indian aesthetic.
I also couldn't find any typos, which I am surprised by, since indie comics are usually full of them. So kudos on the editing.
All in all I can't really recommend this book to you... unless you feel like trying to find all the other bits of the story in the far corners of the internet. If that's your thing, then good luck to you. I hope you have fun trying to find the story, and that the story ends up being good.
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