I really wanted to like this book, a lot. I may be annoyed and nagging about something that shouldn’t be as annoying, but I wanted to like this book. There are two characters in this book that look exactly the same save a different haircut, and they just so happen to be two of the book’s main characters. You also aren’t sure which character she is, because again like another book I read recently, it’s really hard to tell which character is which on the page. You know that this character that was introduced at the beginning has to be important, but you’re not sure why. I was lost right off the bat, and once you get in to the past and where it all came from, it’s even more confusing. This, is something I feel like Scott Snyder did because many of his stories utilize this, but it just didn’t work here. That right there, is a typical story-telling device used to illustrate what looks really plain but eventually becomes something with much more meaning once the story is developed. Now it’s time to show you how we got to that first page. Flip the next couple pages, and you’re in the past. The city she’s in is flooded, and the more you read, the more of an apocalyptic feeling you get from the narration.
There’s a girl riding around on what seems to be a trained dolphin, through a city that looks like it has been overrun with water. The book I think starts off on a bad foot, showing the “present” with a character narrating the imagery on the page. I can see why the title won the award, as weird has always dominated the awards arenas for comic books, but I’m not entirely sure what I missed that everyone else got. The Wake won the 2014 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series, along with Sean Murphy who also assisted him with efforts in American Vampire. However, I was pretty let down at the end of the read. So with all of that said, I was pretty stoked to be reading Snyder’s new book The Wake for this week’s Binge.
His original works like American Vampire have been nothing short of entertaining, and really continues to get crazier and crazier. His Batman titles are brilliant, and of course I have a little bias, but still they are held as some of the best Batman writing since the classics like Grant Morrison. We need Snyder to be able to justify our reading habits to those who don’t understand comics, or refuse to understand their power and how it’s remained a relevant medium over the years. Scott Snyder is that up-and-coming, and maybe possibly has already come (hehe), writer/artist that our generation of comic book readers needed. You’ve probably been able to tell by now that I adore everything Scott Snyder does, whether it be writing a new Batman story, or talking about his experiences with some of our favorite heroes. I was extremely excited for this week’s main selection for the Comic Binge.
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