They're in the (pan-dimensional) jailhouse now! Eddie and Tala's rescue mission on the far side of reality hits a major snag when our heroes get locked up in "space jail"! Making matters worse, Tala's team of military mutants don't plan on sticking around to help finish the mission! What a bunch of jerks! It looks like Tala might have to put aside her morals and get down in the dirt with Eddie if they want to get out of this one. Weird aliens! Magical sci-fi! Someone gets stabbed! Be there!
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Mike Norton has been working in comics for 10 years now, gaining recognition for projects such as The Waiting Place and Jason and the Argobots. In 2001, he became Art Director for Devil's Due Publishing where he drew the first Voltron mini-series. In 2005, he went freelance and has since made a name for himself working on books like Queen and Country, Gravity, Runaways, All-New Atom and Green Arrow/Black Canary. He is also very, very tall.
Somehow I managed to miss that this was the third volume in a series, instead of the first. However, that did not influence my reading experience in a bad way. I was still able to follow the story perfectly well and enjoy it in the meantime. I would recommend reading the other two volumes though, because I was missing a bit of the back story. Fortunately there were flashbacks that explained the main events leading to this very moment.
It's easy to describe the plot in a very very short way: prison break. And as is often the case with prison breaks, there are many obstacles and twists. The two things that made this prison break awesome are the art and the flashbacks. The art is very colorful and detailed and I love how unique the characters were!.
I'm a sucker for flashbacks. I just love getting bits of information throughout the story, that make a character's actions clearer and clearer. I feel like this graphic novel handled the flashbacks really well. You start to understand everyone's feelings toward others and get the opportunity to share those feelings of the characters. I usually name examples, but that would spoil this graphic novel so I'll just skip that part.
In short, Grumble: Memphis and Beyond the Infinite is a short but fun graphic novel, filled with twists and revelations. I was able to follow the story, despite not having read the first two volumes. The Graphic Novel made me curious though, so I'll definitely pick them up!