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Josh,
Amazing work…you manage to poignantly convey each character’s private orbit…what they were thinking, sensing, imagining. I love the project!
Only because my obsession with football is compelling me to do so, let me talk about page 10, which shows a giant New England Patriots poster on the wall. Just to clarify, I am first and foremost a Saints fan. I’ve had season tickets since 2001 and have watched every game since 1992, while devouring every shred of info on the team. My story with the Patriots is a long one and probably better-suited for another space — I just wanted to explain, without a doubt, that my favorite NFL teams are ranked: Saints no.1, Patriots no.2, and the 49ers, Rams and especially the Falcons ranked somewhere deep in the bowels of Hades.
Let me not forget, though, that Chapter 2 is superbly done. Great job, Josh!
Leo, knowing your obsession with the Saints, I was wondering about those Pats posters on your wall (not to mention Pats action figures). So thanks for explaining (sort of).
Josh, this looks great. It’s eerie reading this, knowing what was to come, especially given that I know Leo and Michelle. Can’t wait for the next chapter!
Again, I love the artwork. The attention to detail is amazing. The story is so personal. The characters seem very much like real people. And oh, those poor comics left behind…
That room is just like miles’s
Will this comic be available in print? Please, pretty please make it available when it is finished. I would really like to have this in my collection, and I bet I’m not the only one.
Tapio, fear not! Plans are afoot for a print edition of A.D., and we’ll be sure to let folks know the details when they’re all worked out.
Really, really great stuff. Looking forward to the next chapter and the eventual print edition.
Little details in everyone’s stories carry so much weight given what’s coming.
Starting slow with the storm and then rewinding to focus on your characters… it’s like Instant Chekov.
WOW. Chapter 2 has really sucked me into the vortex. Especially the comics and memorabilia. With the glances back and the are you sures, knowing what you know, your heart breaks a little.
Excellent work.
Love your drawings. The hurricane really disrupted our lives. We couldn’t go outside and pee. Rose used a paper, but I held it until the winds died down. I wanted to go out when the eye passed, but Ken wouldn’t let me.
Kip the bulldog
Chapter 2, Page 9
Wow; incredible. You captured the essence of Leo and Michelle’s old apartment eerily well. I’d forgotten how much stuff they had down there…
Additionally, Twiropa looks perfect, though I can’t imagine that few people there on a Latin night, even if it was two nights before the storm. Weird.
I read Chapter One a while back and was very excited to see that Chapter Two is now up. This is a remarkable effort — the “impending” feeling is so strong in Chapter Two, brings up a lot of emotions.
I’m a New Yorker who loves New Orleans and has tried to stay abreast of what is going on in the region, reading blogs and blogging over at Daily Kos about post-Katrina recovery. This is one of the finest projects I’ve encountered, really hits home. Thank you so much for this, and I will be eagerly awaiting more chapters and a print edition!
Hey everyone, your comments have been really inspiring. This is truly a labor of love, and I’m sweating all the details because I want to get the feeling right. Your feedback is what makes it all worth while, so please keep it up!
Nice. I really don’t want to read this with all the pets I see. I fear they’re
not all going to make it out alive!
Don’t make me cry, dammit.
It’s solid work though.
The suspense was incredible reading this installation (the 2nd chapter), even knowing what was to come. The dogs yipping. The click of the door. The empty bar. It’s amazing how you are really forcing yourself to look back in this kind of specificity, rendering the actual concrete moments, the little details that really tell the story emotionally of how people might have experienced the event unfolding. I feel like the story is more poignant than ever told in this way since we’re now so far from thinking about it like this–the news cycle gone, the mess still there, people having moved on emotionally to the new tragedies of the day. There’s a real, spiritual gift in paying homage to what people went through like this and hopefully forcing many of us back to a place of conscious, empathetic response. Anyway, I could go on but I’m afraid I’m boring you. Very interesting angles and physical details in the frames, too. And I love the purple rather than black and white images. I have to think about what that evokes . . . there’s something about it.
Congrats on this!
Loving the dogs in Leo’s and Michelle’s apartment. Part comic relief, part emotional metaphor. Nice touch.
you really know how to make your audience squirm
the frame of all the lovingly stacked trades and the long boxes made my stomach hurt.
Very good story. I love the way that the characters show their emotions and the facial expressions are awesome. How do you do it?