The art is fabulous - this is a book featuring talking animals, so each shot is hugely diverse, but it’s also played straight, without ever winking at the “camera”, so you’re never broken out of the reality of the world. As story switches from talking, to shooting and running and driving, the panel layout and framing changes up appropriately too to reflect the swings of pace. It must have taken forever to plot out,
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no wonder these volumes are a couple of years apart. In the end, the Grandville series feels like little else out there at the moment, both in terms of its look and feel, and in terms of its confidence in being its own thing. Bete Noire is not only a great addition to th R6W&?W2??B?6?F?W26??RF??RF?6WGW??B??W2f?"gWGW&Rf??V?W2??FW'7W'6VBF?&?Vv?F?R7F?'??6??F??V??p??( ?F?&?Vv???W>( ?7&?72F?R'V???6?( ?Bv?Bf?"F?R?W?B??R?&VG????GBf' ?&F??s???ttttp?f?W"vR&Wf?Wr?bw&?Gf???S?&WGFR???&R?6?W'FW7??bF&???'6R6??72?&Vv??2??F?R?W?BvR?c ???