Wednesday, August 1, 2012

"Signal to Noise" by Neil Gaiman, a review

Signal to Noise

My rating: 4 of 5 stars
“The world is always ending, for someone”, he says.
She is trying to quieten the baby, and does not hear him. I doubt that it would matter if she did.”
A tale of the last days of a movie director. Never boring, McKean's illustrations are great as always. And what it had to say - from signal to noise, it's always signal to noise.

The good thing about some of Gaiman's writings - like the beginning of American Gods and the human subplots in The Sandman series - is their realism. The ability to touch feelings not many put into fiction perhaps finding them too small or short-lived, lacking greatness. But that's what makes "Signal to Noise" personal and strong.

Might be a bit too specific for a typical comic book reader, but it really touched me.

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