Title: Boring and annoying
Product review: The same one page action, told 99 times in 99 different ways (aka an exercise in style the Queneau way).When "99 ways..." got out, I was curious enough to buy it (and obviously read it). Also, I liked the idea at the base, and I usually love "style exercises". But. Matt Madden fails completely at this divertissement. After a few pages, the exercise becomes rhetorical, and it lacks the imagination and creativity it would need. Yes, there are many ideas, but almost all of them are carried out in a rather mechanical (and possibly dull) way. And even the few good ones look highly undeveloped. In the end it was not only boring to read, but worst: it was annoying.I would indeed recommend this book to people learning to make comics, but only to them. Though, given all the good reviews "99 ways..." got, maybe it's just me.
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