Here lies the problem...Kindt is undoubtedly a good story teller, but at some point during all his stories there comes a point in the story, a really small point but important nonetheless, that makes me go...'eh? what?...err, but when did that happen, I don't get it?'That happened in 3 Story. It's split into 3 stories. One from his mother's point of view, one from his wife's point of view and one from his daugthers pov. During the wife story, story 2, they're so in love, but he's getting bigger

This is a sad and moving story centered around a man who never stops growing, told in the perspective of three important women in his life. The artwork is loose, but beautiful. The pace is slow, but it fits the tragedy of the story. The writing is clever and morose. A solid graphic novel all around.

Another fantastic and moving story by Matt Kindt. Three short stories telling of the family and friends of a giant man, the hardships they (and he) had to endure in loving and living with him. It really reminded me of The Time Traveler's Wife in many ways.

I'm not totally sure what it was about this comic book that rubbed me the wrong way, but I had a really hard time getting into it. It's just one of those books where it feels like the writer thinks they're a lot deeper than they actually are. He tells the story in a unique way and it's an interesting concept to explore, one that's on a magical realist par with Aimee Bender, one of my favorite short story writers, but it just never quite gets out of its own way enough to resonate and make you fee...

The premise of 3 Story is that of The Incredible Shrinking Man in reverse: the protagonist is a giant who cannot stop growing, and whose superhuman size both alienates him from human contact and, paradoxically, renders him physically vulnerable. But there are big differences between the two stories. Whereas The Incredible Shrinking Man, though also dealing with loneliness and alienation, celebrates its tiny hero's ingenuity and will to survive, 3 Story centers on a bemused and passive protag...

The life story of a man who grows at an unnatural rate, taking him beyond normal human existence, told from the viewpoint of the three most important women in his life. This is well-told, touching and surprising in the ways the characters cope (and don't cope) with his condition, and truthful about the hardships the main character and his wife face. The book is also subtly creative graphically, such as tails of word balloons leading, not to typical word balloons, but entire panels that are picto...

As an author, there are a couple of ways to approach a sci-fi concept. One can take the idea and simply run with it, expecting readers to give in to the demands of suspendable disbelief. Alternatively, an author can exert a lot of effort to couch his concept in plausibilities, striving to explain things in scientific terms (or at least in terms that could be scientific). Each method has its fans, but generally in the last few decades anecdotal evidence leads me to think that all but the lowest c...

What a strange little book. A brief look into the life of a man who never stopped growing, as told by his mother, wife and daughter. Maybe it's a metaphor for how people grow apart? Maybe it's just a weird story about a giant man and how his condition eventually means he can't live in this world anymore. Very unique. I loved it!

This was so, so sad. I don't really know what else to say. Poor Craig. Poor Jo.

A better title would be The Curious Case for Depression. Although written in the vein of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” its potentiality and whimsy is negated by downright morbidity, characters little more than archetypes in a morality play, like Loneliness and Regret. Clearly Kindt never read the far funnier, balanced, and interesting Gulliver’s Travels.

Our public library has an adult summer reading program. I mean, I don't know how they pull it off. We always had one for kids growing up - and our public library does that, too. BUT, they've got one for adults. With great prizes. Gift certificates to local favorite restaurants, bakeries, the book store... Seriously, it's great. (I wrote that part to make you jealous. I hope it worked.)They've got three boxes: fiction, non-fiction, pick-of-the-week.This week is graphic novel week. So, I pulled a

Kindt just keeps getting better. He shows a deep understanding of character. The writing is accomplished . The concept is simple but nicely explored. But in a comic I also want to see something that could not work in any other medium and this too delivers: the artwork explores the themes of scale and depth, taking the nice idea that The Giant Man's wife makes miniatures to compose pages of rooms within rooms- exemplified by the superb cover. Kindt is not for everyone and his art has a sketchines...

Matt Kindt's storytelling is never dissapointment. And it wasn't this time either. I must admit, it was full of sadness and depressive stuff and behavior, but also full of love. This book is told from view of three people + at the end there are short parts from the life of Craig Pressgang. I am happy I could add this to my collection of Kindt's work and I believe I'll read it once again in the future.

This is a depressing story that shouldn't be read before bed. It keeps building up to a tragic end and it's obvious at every point that it can't be a happy one. The difficulties of growing so big have basis in science, something I personally enjoyed. The main character's size makes his body very fragile and all human interaction strained or even impossible, making him feel alone even when surrounded by people.Craig is a boy who has grown way beyond normal human height. This starts to cause issue...

Look to Seth Hahne's review for an excellent and thorough treatment of this terrific novel, one of my fave's of the year, right on the heels of one of my other favorites, Kindt's Red Handed. This has a similar feel, the purposely (?) sketchy art, the postmodern reflection on the strengths and limitations of narrative, the story told from multiple perspectives, the lovely, muted watercolor washes, but this one feels more intimate to me than Red Handed. It's the story of a giant who never stops gr...

The clearest recommendation I could make concerning 3 Story is that Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump, Cast Away) need to make this a movie. It would be a perfect project for them. Matt Kindt is one of the best creators in comics at the moment, and that's not up for debate. He's the rare creator who actually manages to blend the superhero realm (the stuff fans like) and the graphic novel realm (the stuff critics like). He can do anything. Most importantly, he's a born storyteller. When...

Pretty depressing book, but a very creative and original approach to the topic. I would have liked this to be about twice as long and more fully-developed, but it's not bad as is.

As a 6’5″ woman, I am drawn to stories about the incredibly tall, or Giants as they are called. It’s the same thing that drew me to Beverly Cleary’s Beezus when I was a child, the ability to find comfort in a fictional kindred spirit when one cannot be found in your actual life.It’s why The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken is in the top five of my all-time favorite novels. It’s why I picked up Matt Kindt’s excellent graphic novel 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man even though I cou...

One of Kindt's more accessible works, I feel. Three stories from the perspectives of three figures in the fictional Giant Man's life. In this case of humans-of-unusual-size, the Giant Man continues to grow until he can no longer relate to anyone - metaphoric, perhaps? Surreal, detached, with Kindt's usual mastery of the medium. Read with Giants Beware! and The Giant and How He Humbugged America.

Kindt is a master at weaving stories together to form a complex and cohesive whole. I'm currently halfway through superspy, another excellent example. 3 Story tackles a completely different subject than superspy but with similar themes of tragedy and melancholy. True human connection is only temporary, and Kindt illustrates this belief with unusual stories that isolate and underscore the principle because of how far removed they are from everyday life. We are all alone, and yet we are never alon...