![]() academia… classic themes, so one would hope that author David Mazzucchelli would have something new to say about them. It’s not clear in the book their relationship just is because it’s artistically apropos. She finally leaves him, although I was wondering what she saw in him in the first place. His wife is a shy sculptor whose parents loved her brother better, the opposite of him in every way possible. He’s a self-obsessed showoff who thinks about no one but himself and is always right. He’s brilliant and lives the life of the mind, harsh to his students when he’s not sleeping with the female ones. He teaches based on his paper constructions. Well, a professor, really, because the point is made early on that the building he designs haven’t been built. ![]() But the characters are cliches and you’ve seen the content before, making it an ultimately disappointing book, emptier than I hoped it would be.Īsterios Polyp is an architect. Asterios Polyp is beautiful, with all kinds of formalist and craft tricks to push the medium of comics. It’s a shame that such an artistically accomplished work doesn’t have a story of the same high quality. ![]()
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