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Re: I finished CIRCLE OF BLOOD

Posted By: MACK!
Date: TUE, 1/8/02, 2:45 p.m.

In Response To: I finished CIRCLE OF BLOOD (jason, the 1223)

: The other day I walked into my shop, not expecting to
: find this gem and since it was on the shelf I had to
: get it. I now have CIRCLE OF BLOOD, MASKS OF THE NOH,
: and METAMORPHOSIS. All great works.

: I wrote a while ago on METAMORPHOSIS. On how the very
: thing that Mack discusses through his characters,
: personal change/evolution, becomes something the
: reader does just by reading the book. You have to turn
: the book sideways, upside down, diagonal. You have to
: evolve the way you read and think about the standard
: visual narrative pattern of comics and create
: something new. You become the author, as in any book
: or poem, because you uncover the message of the book
: one word, one image, at a time. A great work.

: Likewise, in CIRCLE OF BLOOD metaphor, allusion,
: symbolism all take a dominant role. However, it is
: Mack's talent as a writer that shows through because
: character development always superceded any
: constructive advice, and he weaves those devices into
: his story as if he were making a tapestry. Those
: devices give the story a frame, a context, but the
: central image of the tapestry comes in the characters.

: But the CIRCLE OF BLOOD symbolizes many things. While on
: the one hand this story exemplifies action adventure.
: It's black op government conspiracy that. The Noh
: evolves from protagonist to antogonist because the
: reader always feels for Kabuki. It's through her eyes
: that we see these events unfold. I love the fact that
: the central players, Kabuki, the General, Kai, are all
: related and the mirroring of past events take place in
: the present.

: Mirror. I just finished Kurt Vonnegut's "Breakfast
: of Champions." In that novel, one of the
: characters views mirrors as "leaks" ;
: passageways to other dimensions/realities. And here,
: in CIRCLE OF BLOOD, that definition takes a certain
: amount of truth. The mirroring of events; Kabuki's
: first torture by Kai as a girl and then the final
: scene with her on her mother's grave, leaks (or in
: Warren Ellis's terms, bleeds) through time, the pages,
: age.

: I LOVED this book. The artwork changes (evolves, again)
: according to what the tone of the story dictates. From
: simple line work, to complicated collages and
: puzzle-pieced pages. Mack is very truly talented.

: I feel privelaged to read this work. I must find the rest
: of the series, and soon.

: Thank you, Mack, for giving us such a wonderful story.

Hi Jason,

Again, thanks for such a passionate review of my work. I really appreciate your feedback on it. Very glad you liked Circle of Blood after reading and liking Metamorphosis. I'm glad that even though you are reading them in the wrong order that they still work for you. I urge you to read Skin Deep. It is really the first part of the Metamorphosis story. Let me know what you think when you do. Now for some of your questions:

: Question: is the SCARAB series collected yet?

A hardcover collection of Scarab 1-8 will be offered in the next previews catalogue. It reads very well collected in this way.

: planning on doing series based on all the Noh agents?

I do plan to do a story on each and every one.

: Also, is METAMORPHOSIS the end of Kabuki's story or
: will there be more?

There is MUCH MUCH MUCH more to Kabuki's story. Metamorphosis is more like the beginning than the end.

Remember what it said on the last page of Meta: Z is for zero. A reset clock. The point of a new beginning.

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  • NEW! I finished CIRCLE OF BLOOD -- jason, the 1223 -- TUE, 1/8/02, 11:58 a.m.
    • NEW! Re: I finished CIRCLE OF BLOOD -- MACK! -- TUE, 1/8/02, 2:45 p.m.
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