Description
"Keatinge and Del Duca have created a contemporary world that teems with casual miracles and feels all the more real and lived in for it." - Booklist (Starred)
"The story by Keatinge is engaging to read, with a fully developed cast of well-rounded characters and settings that shift and incorporate fantastic elements in a dreamlike manner. del Duca's artwork keeps pace, portraying all these facets magnificently in each panel." - Library Journal (Starred)
"Fun and vibrant, Shutter is a wild ride of a comic" -Entertainment Weekly
"Del Duca's spiky, energetic style is addictive, and colorist Owen Gieni fills each spread with electricity. Every page seems to vibrate..." - NPR
INDIANA JONES FOR THE 21st CENTURY! Marvel Knights: Hulk and Glory writer Joseph Keatinge teams up with artist extraordinaire Leila del Duca for her Image Comics debut in an all-new ongoing series combining the urban fantasy of Fables and the globe-spanning adventure of Y: The Last Man. Kate Kristopher, once the most famous explorer of an Earth far more fantastic than the one we know, is forced to return to the adventurous life she left behind when a family secret threatens to destroy everything she spent her life protecting. Collects Shutter #1-6.
Reviews
BOOKLIST (STARRED) -- When she's seven years old, Kate Kristopher's father takes her to the moon-the first step in carrying on her family's legacy of exploring the vast realms of the imagination. Now 27, Kate is jaded and aimless, an Alice who's seen too much Wonderland. Worse yet, when she becomes the target of both a kidnapping and an assassination attempt, she is cast down a rabbit hole of painful family revelations. Keatinge and Del Duca have created a contemporary world that teems with casual miracles and feels all the more real and lived in for it. Crammed with the elements of children's storybooks, the art offers soft lines and a panoply of almost-recognizable storybook figures that honor those hallowed childhood recollections. This evocation makes Kate's adulthood disillusionment all the more poignant and gives Shutter an entertainingly subversive kick, though the deeper emotions never derail the sense of humor, wonder, and adventure. With a mixed-race heroine and a transsexual best friend, Shutter also displays a higher-than-average level of diversity, and that's not even counting the psychotically upbeat cat, the mustachioed robot, and the divorced and destitute worm. Fair warning, though: volume one ends right in the thick of the action.
Book Information
ISBN 9781632151452
Author Joseph Keatinge
Format Paperback
Page Count 136
Imprint Image Comics
Publisher Image Comics
Weight(grams) 313g
"The story by Keatinge is engaging to read, with a fully developed cast of well-rounded characters and settings that shift and incorporate fantastic elements in a dreamlike manner. del Duca's artwork keeps pace, portraying all these facets magnificently in each panel." - Library Journal (Starred)
"Fun and vibrant, Shutter is a wild ride of a comic" -Entertainment Weekly
"Del Duca's spiky, energetic style is addictive, and colorist Owen Gieni fills each spread with electricity. Every page seems to vibrate..." - NPR
INDIANA JONES FOR THE 21st CENTURY! Marvel Knights: Hulk and Glory writer Joseph Keatinge teams up with artist extraordinaire Leila del Duca for her Image Comics debut in an all-new ongoing series combining the urban fantasy of Fables and the globe-spanning adventure of Y: The Last Man. Kate Kristopher, once the most famous explorer of an Earth far more fantastic than the one we know, is forced to return to the adventurous life she left behind when a family secret threatens to destroy everything she spent her life protecting. Collects Shutter #1-6.
Reviews
BOOKLIST (STARRED) -- When she's seven years old, Kate Kristopher's father takes her to the moon-the first step in carrying on her family's legacy of exploring the vast realms of the imagination. Now 27, Kate is jaded and aimless, an Alice who's seen too much Wonderland. Worse yet, when she becomes the target of both a kidnapping and an assassination attempt, she is cast down a rabbit hole of painful family revelations. Keatinge and Del Duca have created a contemporary world that teems with casual miracles and feels all the more real and lived in for it. Crammed with the elements of children's storybooks, the art offers soft lines and a panoply of almost-recognizable storybook figures that honor those hallowed childhood recollections. This evocation makes Kate's adulthood disillusionment all the more poignant and gives Shutter an entertainingly subversive kick, though the deeper emotions never derail the sense of humor, wonder, and adventure. With a mixed-race heroine and a transsexual best friend, Shutter also displays a higher-than-average level of diversity, and that's not even counting the psychotically upbeat cat, the mustachioed robot, and the divorced and destitute worm. Fair warning, though: volume one ends right in the thick of the action.
Book Information
ISBN 9781632151452
Author Joseph Keatinge
Format Paperback
Page Count 136
Imprint Image Comics
Publisher Image Comics
Weight(grams) 313g
