I especially want to point out the coloring by Whitney Cogar. Liz Fleming really adds to the illustrations with her inking and Giant Days signature look. It’s fluid and can shift into the surreal when it needs to, but the expressions are always perfectly clear and convey the right emotions.

In fact, Sarin’s cartoony style art is the perfect fit for the feel and tone of Giant Days, where a more realistic style just wouldn’t suit the book. Sarin knows how and when to exaggerate and warp the characters to highlight the mood or play up to the jokes and it works fantastically well with Allison’s script. Max Sarin’s illustrations are great at both complementing and driving the humor. It’s not just Allison who deserves the credit for the humor, though. McGraw, the well mannered young man with a serious DIY fixation may be one of my favourite characters in comics right now. Allison has assembled a great core cast and he really knows how to use them to generate both humor and pathos. I love how the sense of humor veers from the silly and the surreal to sharp and sometimes biting, all while being driven by the personalities and foibles of the characters. The breakup scene with McGraw and Emilia is incredibly well done and one of the most impressive things in this volume.įor me one of the strongest defining features of Giant Days is its sense of humor, and it’s in top form with this volume. Then we have McGraw and Susan rekindling their relationship with McGraw breaking things off with Emilia. Ed’s date and fear of letting things take their course is really endearing as Ed is too afraid of letting go of the longest of long shots with Esther.

Daisy tries to help Ed find love with a kindred spirit in a brilliant tangent involving awkwardness, doubt, uncertainty and a Buck Rodgers remake.

Young love is the core of this volume, with several relationships coming, going or carrying on regardless. 8 takes place towards the end of the girls’ second year at Sheffield University and focuses on three of the most important things for young students: romance, reputation and really high energy bills. The ongoing adventures of Sheffield University students Susan, Esther and Daisy have a great reputation, but how good is Giant Days Vol. The series won the 2016 Eisner award for Best Continuing Series and it won Allison the Best Writer award at the same time. John Allison’s Giant Days is one of the best slice of life comics today.

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