![]() For me, though, the best part about the work is the art, and it was what originally drew me to it. That’s most of the story, actually a man of few words looking for something that is not explained right away as he travels through The City, a hostile artificial construction that apparently knows no end, and he only really starts to interact with other characters in a meaningful way around halfway through the story. So, BLAME! is about a guy with a gun who needs to find something called a Net Terminal Gene. In a similar way to how Hideaki Anno’s seminal work Neon Genesis Evangelion uses its lore as an excuse to develop its characters and unveils a plot that doesn’t really care about answering a whole lot of questions, BLAME!’s extremely convoluted lore is just a facade, purposefully confusing and ambiguous so as to leave the plot as flexible as possible for creativity’s sake. ![]() I hate having to answer that question, not because I find the premise of the book difficult to explain (which, let’s be honest, it kind of is), but because the plot and the setting is not really that important to me when discussing the work. When I recommend BLAME! – the admittedly a tad obscure manga by Tsutomu Nihei – to someone, I tend to get that dreaded question asked to me. Comics in Focus: Chris Claremont's X-Men.This Lightning, This Madness: Understanding Alan Moore's Miracleman, Book One.And the Universe so Big: Understanding Batman: The Killing Joke.Revisionism, Radical Experimentation, and Dystopia in Keith Giffen's Legion of Super-Heroes.Everything and a Mini-Series for the Kitchen Sink: Understanding Infinite Crisis.Blind Dates and Broken Hearts: The Tragic Loves of Matthew Murdock.Minutes to Midnight: Twelve Essays on Watchmen.When Manga Came to America: Super-Hero Revisionism in Mai, the Psychic Girl.The Future of Comics, the Future of Men: Matt Fraction's Casanova.Classics on Infinite Earths: The Justice League and DC Crossover Canon.The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, and the Invention of the Modern Comic Book Writer.The Best There is at What He Does: Examining Chris Claremont’s X-Men.Humans and Paragons: Essays on Super-Hero Justice.The Mignolaverse: Hellboy and the Comics Art of Mike Mignola.How to Analyze & Review Comics: A Handbook on Comics Criticism.Improving the Foundations: Batman Begins from Comics to Screen.Mutant Cinema: The X-Men Trilogy from Comics to Screen.Gotham City 14 Miles: 14 Essays on Why the 1960s Batman TV Series Matters.Moving Panels: Translating Comics to Film.Time is a Flat Circle: Examining True Detective, Season One.Musings on Monsters: Observations on the World of Classic Horror.Why Do We Fall?: Examining Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy.Keeping the World Strange: A Planetary Guide.Shot in the Face: A Savage Journey to the Heart of Transmetropolitan.Voyage in Noise: Warren Ellis and the Demise of Western Civilization. ![]()
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