X,' created by Dean Motter but largely scripted by Gilbert Hernández and with art by Los Bros Hernandez. This collects the first four issues of the Vortex series 'Mr. It would be easy, given the title, to assume that this book is a sequel to something. A good book to read for a student or fan of comics and comicology. I did some Google research but couldn’t find anything. I’m also curious if the show ‘The X Files’ got its name from this book being that it appeared in the concept art in the back. They decided instead to go with a more 1980’s style Bauhaus which was more popular at the time which leaves the book feeling dated. I didn’t love the art style and wish they would have gone with the more angular architectural style that they had in the story boards that appeared at the back of the version of the book that I read.
Perhaps you can attribute this to 1980’s Canada in which the book was written in. The characters are not as cliché as I’d expect and there was something slightly tantalizing about their very subtle break of the usual programming that we see in most predictable Hollywood style character development. I like the concept of “psychetecture” and see now the influence this story had on movies such as Dark City which I had watched just a week before unintentionally stumbling onto this book. It’s not an overly deep GN compared to what I’ve been reading, which isn’t a bad thing.
