Title: Disappointing
Product review: While I must admit there is SOME creativity, a bit of cleverness, and a few useful ideas in this book, it truly felt more like "exercises in trivial changes which do nothing for the story." Madden fills much of the book with very trite modifications to his original story "template". For every page that seems clever, there is at least one other that feels like a complete cop-out.As a story teller, I would be much more interested in seeing the actual story structure approached from various angles. Truly the possibilities are endless, even if the graphic style remained constant. So I would say the title of the book is a bit misleading. It should be something like "99 Ways to draw a comic with no meaningful consequence to the story". This really is about graphic style, not story.
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