Jim Lives: cool art, not much else
Arc copy. I had high hopes for this but ultimately was disappointed. I just didn’t like it. I suggest you skip this comic.
The core idea was cool, from there it was all down hill. This graphic novel was fast paced but had little depth.. A 50+ year old father searching for his journalist son is embroiled in a plot to hide members of the 27 club, a series of artists and musicians who ‘died’ at the peak of their careers at the age of 27. The journalist son is missing after he finds an old man who may be Jim Morrison, hiding out in a mediterreanean town known and studied for longevity of life.
The art was cool, but it was difficult to view. The rough edges and sharp lines made all of the characters, even the protagonists, appear to be sinister and angry even when they are ‘happy’.
Both story and art together give forth a sub 75 page graphic novel that not only barely skims the surface, it wraps the entire plot into a package and then *spoiler* kills off the organization that enables the 27 club’s existence with some hokey ‘our time is done’ kind of message. *end spolier*
Every 3-5 pages there is a chapter break which wastes another two page layout with next chapter text and blank colored pages.. the last 3-5 pages were ‘blooper’ pages which I have never seen before, but ultimately were pages that could have furthered the plot..
Through the comic you do see snapshots of artists who are purportedly part of the 27 club, but even those were a disappointment.. While Kurt Cobain pushing a wheelbarrow was strange, Amy Winehouse working her way as a waitress was depressing.
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