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Jens Harder's "Leviathan" (NBM/Comics Lit; 144pp) has an international flavor. Created by a German artist and released on both sides of the Atlantic, it has been written in the boundless language of wordless comix, except for the chapter headings that appear in four different languages. It features the creature of the title, a giant sperm whale, as it swims through disparate oceans, encountering man and beast through the ages. Foregoing a traditional story, it reads like Neptune's dream after a night of bad sushi. Harder depicts the whale as a fearsome monster, a silent behemoth that rules...
...graphic novel" was the 1976 publication of "Beyond Time and Again," by George Metzger, where the term "graphic novel" appears on the title page and on the dust jacket flaps. There had been other efforts at "graphic storytelling" before. Eisner mentions the work of Lynd Ward [creator of the wordless novel "Gods' Man" in 1929] in his introduction, for instance. Milt Gross did an entire narrative in pictures with no words: "He Done Her Wrong" in 1930. Gil Kane and Archie Goodwin produced "His Name Is? Savage," [a book-length comic,] in 1968. "A Contract with God" gathered...
...absence of a band, “An’ Another Thing” showcases Matthews’ emotive, eerie falsetto better than anything he’s done before. “Grey Blue Eyes” is elegant and Eastern-inflected, Matthews’ voice building in wordless, harmonic crescendo. Matthews the solo artist is diverting, but it will take stronger songwriting for him to justify branching out on his own. —Andrew R. Iliff
...Dion songs and covers, among them such classic Vegas numbers as Fever and I've Got the World on a String. All the backdrops--including Times Square, a train station and a Florentine campo--would be broadcast on a giant $6 million LED screen. There would be a wordless Romeo and Juliet interlude, a tree that would bloom onstage and a flying orchestra. And, yes, there would be a moon character dressed entirely in white. "He illustrates the emotions of the audience," says Dragone. "He is also a baby who has never seen anything...
...exhilarating psychotic rush of the wordless song “The Killer Robots” was the clear highlight. The piece demonstrates flashy, rumbling garage rock tendencies that resemble the bustling rhythmic guitar drive of Detroit blues-rock band the Von Bondies...