Jason 🏳️🌈🪷🇪🇺 reviewed Night Fever by Jacob Phillips
Stunning and a little Burroughsian
4 stars
It certainly looks good - it may well be Sean and Jake Phillips' finest artistic hours respectively. I mean I've never seen comic or graphic novel artwork look this beautiful. Brubaker's story though I'm not fully on board with - I'm comfortable with much of the story being conceptual, almost happening in a daze which may or may not be shared by the author. The non-ending thought leaves me a little disappointed - it's a fast read, which is almost a welcome change of pace from Brubaker, and it's stunningly cinematic. The lack of consequences for Webb though leaves me a little cold, whether Rainer is real or not (I'm not convinced he is) - the hint that power and privilege sidestep all consequences is definitely made, but maybe the balance Brubaker tries for between that and his far more interesting noir take on the 'roads not taken' theme felt …
It certainly looks good - it may well be Sean and Jake Phillips' finest artistic hours respectively. I mean I've never seen comic or graphic novel artwork look this beautiful. Brubaker's story though I'm not fully on board with - I'm comfortable with much of the story being conceptual, almost happening in a daze which may or may not be shared by the author. The non-ending thought leaves me a little disappointed - it's a fast read, which is almost a welcome change of pace from Brubaker, and it's stunningly cinematic. The lack of consequences for Webb though leaves me a little cold, whether Rainer is real or not (I'm not convinced he is) - the hint that power and privilege sidestep all consequences is definitely made, but maybe the balance Brubaker tries for between that and his far more interesting noir take on the 'roads not taken' theme felt a bit wonky. Either way it's a stunning read, and not at all to be missed.