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Well, now that the narrative has fully embraced retrocausality and time paradoxes, etc., it's become more intriguing... especially in the last twenty pages where the perspective flip has more emotional weight. It reminds me of the first story in that Abel collection I'm currently reading, actually. The way Clowes illustrates dialogue is strange, as if characters are being pushed out of their own realities, muffled...
— May 05, 2016 02:54PM
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Grant
is on page 179 of 180
Of all references, I feel like this ends with a reunion similar to the one in TERMINATOR between Kyle and Sarah. Maybe that's apt..? It's hard to deny Clowes' ambition with PATIENCE (and it does require patience, hah). There are a lot of effectively clever 'aha' scenes in Jack's time-jumping. But a distracting feeling persists- psychology would just work better work in a hybrid novel with intermittent illustration.
— May 10, 2016 07:37AM
Grant
is on page 74 of 180
As the narrative pieces fall into place, I can appreciate how Clowes manipulates the component of nostalgia. No one could possibly stay a passive observer while wielding the power to affect personal history and prevent someone's humiliation. I wonder if all the dialogue would be more potent without overuse of profanity and first-person narration. I do like PATIENCE, but the panels are a bit too dense. More later....
— May 02, 2016 02:54PM
Grant
is on page 46 of 180
Unsure how I feel in the grander scheme of things.... I mean "a cosmic timewarp deathtrip to the primordial infinite of everlasting love" sounds like a beautifully twisted psychedelic experience(!), but the tone thus far is considerably more mundane than that self-descriptive blurb. There have been a few moments of bleak hilarity, but I guess I'll have to find out how Clowes effectively implements the achronology.
— Apr 28, 2016 07:04AM
