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Muchacho #2
Muchacho
It's a time of grumbling rebellion and brooding revolution. Gabriel de la Serna, the teenage son of a well-to-do family, has gone into hiding. He fled, limping, into the forest. He had come to San Juan, a little village nestled in the mountains, to paint the Passion of the Christ. There he came to understand the passion of the villagers, the country folk, all victims of military repression. Nourished by a sense of divine justice, he begins to understand the villainy of those in power and their cronies. When he's eventually taken in and treated by the guerillas camped out in the forest, he lies about his family name and swaps his pencils and paint brushes for firearms. As he gazes beyond the surface and deeper into the depths, Gabriel also discovers his own humanity, made of flesh and desires...
90 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 8, 2006
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February 3, 2012
L'histoire est moins intéressante dans ce deuxième volume que dans la première partie, mais le dessin est toujours aussi époustouflant. Rien que les deux pages couvertures démontrent l'évolution du personnage principal. Pour le premier livre, un garçon à peine sorti de la puberté, en soutane, une grande tristesse dans les yeux. Pour le second, un jeune homme dont le visage enfantin laisse place aux pommettes masculines plus matures et à un regard violent et passionné.
Ça donne envie de voir les autres trucs que Lepage a faits...
Ça donne envie de voir les autres trucs que Lepage a faits...
October 8, 2025
235×310 'Aire Libre' ¦ D.L. 11/2006 ¦ prix DU08 = eo
I'll first mention that I regard "La Terre Sans Mal" as the greatest art narrative that I've ever read, to my sensibilities absolutely irreproachable in the museum quality of his brushwork and panel composition while painting Sibran's incredibly emotionally engaging story, so I entered this with the highest of expectations- totally met across⇄the⇄board!
Narrative: *****
I knew nothing about Nicaragua, besides the taste of its coffee, before this and appreciate* learning about States puppet governing getting uncharacteristically ousted. The cast of characters was wonderful in their desperations and motivations as they moved through the harsh terrains within an appropriately kinetic plot, swift to an abrupt end where it could have remained, but then the meaty epilogue was CRUCIAL towards understanding the difference between the story and what happened in history.
The progression of his homosexuality is handled expertly as well, laying all the clues subtly in the first tome as he himself self·felt·it·out, then a bit more obvious here where characteristic initiatory action-awkwardness bumps it to the front of the plot and his emotional responses are observed without any of the blatancy that can hurt legitimacy.
Visual: *****
AN AS~STUNNING~AS~IT~GETS A¹CALIBER MASTERPIECE
⁽ö⁾¡Treat!⁽ö⁾
Pages 70-73, or 68-71 inside panels, are painted by the modern master Christian Rossi, where I assume he was attempting to mimic Lepage, in which he does an excellent job with fooling me besides farther↟away people betraying his more →CondensedFaces←. I think they were even studio mates, allowing for such a seemless swap, between two future Global Hall-of-Famers!
*I'm well aware that the reason I advantage from living in the world's most powerful country is its ability to manipulate others, so that patriotic↭shame finds refuge in these stories especially where the meddling gets 180ed (albeit by...).
I'll first mention that I regard "La Terre Sans Mal" as the greatest art narrative that I've ever read, to my sensibilities absolutely irreproachable in the museum quality of his brushwork and panel composition while painting Sibran's incredibly emotionally engaging story, so I entered this with the highest of expectations- totally met across⇄the⇄board!
Narrative: *****
I knew nothing about Nicaragua, besides the taste of its coffee, before this and appreciate* learning about States puppet governing getting uncharacteristically ousted. The cast of characters was wonderful in their desperations and motivations as they moved through the harsh terrains within an appropriately kinetic plot, swift to an abrupt end where it could have remained, but then the meaty epilogue was CRUCIAL towards understanding the difference between the story and what happened in history.
The progression of his homosexuality is handled expertly as well, laying all the clues subtly in the first tome as he himself self·felt·it·out, then a bit more obvious here where characteristic initiatory action-awkwardness bumps it to the front of the plot and his emotional responses are observed without any of the blatancy that can hurt legitimacy.
Visual: *****
AN AS~STUNNING~AS~IT~GETS A¹CALIBER MASTERPIECE
⁽ö⁾¡Treat!⁽ö⁾
Pages 70-73, or 68-71 inside panels, are painted by the modern master Christian Rossi, where I assume he was attempting to mimic Lepage, in which he does an excellent job with fooling me besides farther↟away people betraying his more →CondensedFaces←. I think they were even studio mates, allowing for such a seemless swap, between two future Global Hall-of-Famers!
*I'm well aware that the reason I advantage from living in the world's most powerful country is its ability to manipulate others, so that patriotic↭shame finds refuge in these stories especially where the meddling gets 180ed (albeit by...).
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