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Lassus
08/05/09

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The art is beautiful, and the story seems incredibly inventive.

The lettering, however, makes we want to cry out in pain after reading only one panel. I THINK I could get used to it, but... maybe not.
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Annalee Newitz
08/05/09

@Lassus: Actually if you click on the panels and expand them to full size the lettering looks legible.
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Lassus
08/05/09

@Annalee Newitz: Yeah, I did that, but there's a real problem to my eyes of "Let's see + he nex + place", the different spacing of the letters on the second page (first panel vs. the second panel), and the general uneven jittery-ness of the last page.

I understand I'm being a bit of a whiny bitch about it, but I'm finding it really distracting. I'd probably get over it with extended reading. I hope.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
08/05/09

@Lassus: Agreed. With more conventional lettering, I'd read this, but it hurts my eyes. Especially the + instead of t. Doesn't matter how much it's embiggened.
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Annalee Newitz
08/05/09

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Well you'll be missing out on an amazing series.
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phoghat
08/05/09

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"Ella and the Anarchists" sounds like a club band in the Haicht in the late sixties
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zerofritz
08/05/09

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"There's a kind of sweetness to...her tiny, crumbling lettering."
You call it sweet; I call it effing illegible.
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