PAKLIS 7

I don’t know how under the radar this book is. For all I know, everyone talks about it the minute a new issue comes out. But that conversation never pinged my ancient old radar screen. I love this project. Writer/artist Dustin Weaver uses this series, essentially an anthology, to explore older forms of the medium, largely European, and to adapt elements of those forms for the present while revelling in their styles and possibilities. There’s the tools of Giraud and Gillon, Bernet and Crepax on display, all set within Weaver’s own eccentric gaze and hand, and some excellent performance of colour-as-storytelling. PAKLIS is, perhaps, a book for people who love the comics form. It’s a thing to study, for people who want to immerse themselves in marks and progressions and page shapes. Also, it’s a lot of fun and gorgeous to just look at. But it invites you to learn more about the form, and to watch Weaver himself learning about the form, and is invaluable for that. There’s nothing quite like PAKLIS out there.

PAKLIS is from Image Comics. Your local comics shop can source them for you.