City of Glass: A Graphic Mystery

Not Mazzucchelli's best work, but he does hit a good number of the film noir tropes to locate this crazy piece of metafiction about story-telling inside the frame of a detective story gone wrong. It makes me want to read the prose source material, but I doubt I would be able to get Mazzucchelli's evocative work or the surprise finish out of my head to really immerse myself in the...more

Not Mazzucchelli's best work, but he does hit a good number of the film noir tropes to locate this crazy piece of metafiction about story-telling inside the frame of a detective story gone wrong. It makes me want to read the prose source material, but I doubt I would be able to get Mazzucchelli's evocative work or the surprise finish out of my head to really immerse myself in the quest.   hide

C'est bon, mais le rythme est lent.

Strange and somewhat disturbing

Went against expectations in terms of a mystery novel, had some good ideas.