I'm enjoying it thus far. I still have a bit of an issue with graphic novels in general: I don't know how the pages work.
Perhaps that sounds stupid, but it's part of the language of graphic novels that you have to learn. It's essentially equivalent to scene shifts in movies. There's a convention for what sorts of things happen to indicate different times and places, shifting of story lines.
In graphic novels, they usually (but not always) occur at page breaks (but not all page breaks).
In film, they can play with that, the gradual dawning of where you are in a scene. I don't know the language well enough to play that kind of game.
It definitely bears repeat readings. It's got enormous scope in both time and cast, and deliberately doles information out.
Perhaps you can answer me one particular question though: is there intended to be any sort of connection between Jon Osterman and J'onn J'onzz? Perhaps it was just because I'd recently seen Justice League: New Frontier (the best of those I've seen yet). The characters aren't identical, by any means, but there's enough similarity that the names struck me.
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Perhaps that sounds stupid, but it's part of the language of graphic novels that you have to learn. It's essentially equivalent to scene shifts in movies. There's a convention for what sorts of things happen to indicate different times and places, shifting of story lines.
In graphic novels, they usually (but not always) occur at page breaks (but not all page breaks).
In film, they can play with that, the gradual dawning of where you are in a scene. I don't know the language well enough to play that kind of game.
It definitely bears repeat readings. It's got enormous scope in both time and cast, and deliberately doles information out.
Perhaps you can answer me one particular question though: is there intended to be any sort of connection between Jon Osterman and J'onn J'onzz? Perhaps it was just because I'd recently seen Justice League: New Frontier (the best of those I've seen yet). The characters aren't identical, by any means, but there's enough similarity that the names struck me.