Asterios Polyp
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- ISBN13: 9780307377326
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The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing tale of one man’s search for like, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic tale long awaited, and well worth the wait.
Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a tiny town in the American heartland. But what is this “escape” really about?
As the tale unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we start to know this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he’s gotten to where he is. And isn’t. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she’s gone. Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually.
In the meantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelli’s extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply experimental social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the scenery of human perception.
Asterios Polyp is David Mazzucchelli’s masterpiece: a fantastic American graphic novel.
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I liked this book at the beginning, but after the first few chapters my interest stalled. I don’t reflect this compares well with Persepolis, the first graphic book that I read, and by far the best in my opinion. (Except perhaps, Calvin and Hobbs, if you want to place persons in this category!) The writer can draw, but I reflect he had a very weak tale, and tended to pad the book with drawings, the point of which were not clear. Clearly, many disagree with me so perhaps I am just not into these, or maybe I just don’t like the philosophy… I reflect I have had enough of graphic novels for the moment.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
So-so graphic novel with some appealing moments, but weakened, in the end, by philosophical ruminations which contribute to reader boredom. Will appeal primarily to some literary types. The art, but, is pretty excellent and even creative.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
A most awaited work from David Mazzucchelli displays some of the traits that have made him a reference name in the medium, but ultimately feels reasonably flat victim of its own stereotypes, and a trite tale that does not offer half of the insight that most people pretend it has.
The work pivots around the life tale of a successful and pretentious architect, with some life ruminations, tired cliches around duality, self-discovery, like, redemption, and surprising relations with a bone idle wrap-around ending. The narrative while nothing extraordinary flows relatively well and shows that Mazzucchelli knows the art-form rather well, but he achieves small else. Graphically is pleasantly resolved, but the tale drags the enjoyment of that aspect since it is pulled down like everything else by the stereotypical corniness and inner-demons tale that is so fascinatingly crafted.
Cut away from the stimulation of Rubber Blankets, or the earlier superhero work exploring the humanity of persons characters where he was far better at transforming cliches, after Asterios Polyp it feels that maybe Mazzuchelli needs a writer or another kind of narrative to really offer something far more stimulating. Although agreed the well loved praise agreed to this mediocre work I dread we may have just lost an appealing artist to mainstream boredom.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Appealing book….devious on many different levels…my first buy of a book of this type…. Having written a few young kids tales, I am permanently looking for new means of illustrating. I like the way this book visually gives the reader a springboard from which to bounce one’s own perceptions and thoughts.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
A wonderful and inspired graphic novel, “A P” is well worth the time for any reader.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5