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Aw, man. Again with the Ivan Brunetti (who I haven't read, but Lynda Barry talks about sometimes) influence. Also, emooooo romance junkkkk. But dude, so well done -- a man looking out the window misses his wife levitating in the air, split into 16 pieces, reassemble self and float back down into the bed -- Just think about the simplest and most breathtaking way that can be communicated. And he does it! So nice. Also -- one of the best/simplest/most effective representations of the ubiquitousness...
I'm not sure what I expected...a a meditation on the slow death of a relationship? A quiet, affecting look at how things die slowly when you're not looking? Maybe was was promised in the book description?Everything We Miss is shorter than it should be, and digresses too much from what it purports to be about. Technically, yes, it does "explore the final days of a dying relationship through the infinitesimal unseen moments that surround it," but these unseen moments that surround it are nonsensic...
A dark take on what happens while were not paying attention. I loved the author's creative illustrations.
This is fantastic! Brilliant, original, and heart-felt, I love when I discover books like this...Wow.
Tragic. Poetic. Interesting.
A beautifully illustrated graphic novel, but the narrative is what I enjoyed the most. So much happens in the side-lines of our lives that we tend to miss just because other issues seem a lot more important. I'm not going to over intellectualise the whole thing, just read it and smile.
A beautifully packaged short tale in a small book format about the end of a relationship and the things that our young anti-hero contributes to that ending. A bleak tale, which may be about depression more than anything. Pearson is best known for Hilda kid comics and they are fun and amazingly well drawn. This story gives Pearson a kind of outlet for adult realism. In it he dwells on darkness, disease, death and other forms of d-doom in addition to the end of this relationship. The art is terrif...
The guy seemed like a bit of a douche really but aren't we all douches? Enjoyed basically everything about this.
Bleak and eye-opening. Thanks for sharing, Jason!
A slightly eerie but beautifully told tale documenting the end of a relationship but also highlighting the small aspects of life we seemingly miss when our back is turned. The term 'tunnel vision' springs to mind since Pearson depicts how a lot of our (potential) encounters in life occur just outside the periphery of our vision, and since we do not look around us nor observe our environment we miss out on weird and wonderful things, and other things that might just be the saving of us. Having re...
Luke Pearson captures all of the sadness, and horror, and pain of the moments that go unobserved (except perhaps by the Anurids – orange, multi-legged creatures that are fascinated by humans) in “Everything We Miss.” It is a very dark and depressing place, full of unhappy people, whose misery is only increased by what they don’t know, can’t – or fail to see. It’s all too real. Very different from his Hilda books (children’s graphic novels), which have a lot more whimsy and positive energy. This
Like pretty much everything from Nobrow Press, EWM is another argument in favor of the book as object. The book is more poem than story, despite various narrative threads that run through it, and Pearson's clear, well designed drawings fit perfectly.
Deliciously dark!
This is a beautiful, mournful little book. I enjoyed it and the art is great. The bleakness is, well, bleak. There is something in there, though, about not believing in your own demons in a way. There is a sense that right beyond the haunted self-absorption of the protagonist is a world of connection and perhaps a decent shave. Between a 3 and a 4.
Devastating and moving. I also found a small glimpse of hope toward the end. It’s comforting to know we all feel the same feelings, deep down.
I cried.
There are strange shadowy creatures that enter own heads and use us like puppets to say hurtful things to our loved ones. There are strange slug-like monsters that inhabit our houses causing people to doubt themselves and argue with one another. There are ghosts in every house and skeletal conjoined foetuses on the beach. Trees dance and magic happens every day when our backs are turned.Luke Pearson’s second graphic novel is about primarily the final days of a relationship but also about the rea...
This is so good! An exquisite mixture of verbal and pictorial prose (almost poetry, I would suggest) and weird phantasy. It just might be that I was in the perfect state for reading it or, and this is more likely, it is just that good! The only minus is that it is too damn short - more please!
Beautiful little graphic novel that looks at the unseen moments in life...the things we miss.
I don't think I would have given this five stars were I not an anxiety and depression ridden, desperately-in-need-of-mental-health-help, sad girl. It's a bleak look at the unraveling of a relationship, but also a look at what happens all around us that goes unnoticed and slips by as we are consumed by the tiny little fraction of the world in which we live. This adult graphic novel is a culmination of everything I stress about daily, and the contemplations that made me fall in love with the study...
