Comic Book Review: Mirror
Comic Book: Mirror
Author: Emma Rios and Hewi Lim
Issues: 10
Hard Core Scale: 4/4
Normal Scale: 10/10
Publish Date: 2015
About: The Izrah colony tries to survive its terraforming process on a dependency
of genetic altered stock. However, no love is as powerful as a boy and his dog.
Review:
Originally part of Image’s Eight house project for a shared SF/Fantasy universe.
This to my knowledge is the only one of those titels that got off the ground
and completed. The whole concept of the 8house really just floundered sadly and
made a confusing mess due to publishing and names, despite how good the
stories, art, and worlds were. A shame, but at least one of them made it
through.
Mirror is great. It’s more than
great, its fantastic. The water-colored art, beautiful, feeling pages both in
the familiar and the surreal to the pinnacle of the ideal chair and beyond. It
is a lovely juxtaposition between natural, unnatural, magical, mundane, animal,
human, and other. This is the theme that perpetuates throughout Mirror. Right
to personhood, right to create, right to destroy, right to exist, right to
dream, right to freedom, right to life, right to death, and most of all right
to decide. This comic duo succeeds in its
mission with skill and zeal. Complicated framing handled with delicate care and
fun taken to reinforce it with extras in the book along the way. A very special
story, and wrapped up nicely in ten issues. The end game becomes a bit muddled
in trippy art explosion revealing all. Maybe a few concepts thrown in could be
cut for simplicities sake, but ultimately a tight package in a well-designed world
and story.
Well done.
