Demo
AiT/PlanetLar.
Demo: The Collection (12-issue mini; w Brian Wood; a Becky Cloonan). [From AiT/Planet Lar: Twelve stories of conflicted young people grappling with love, loss,
and the joy of finding your own way in life. The Eisner-nominated and
critically-acclaimed series of self-contained short stories by writer
Brian Wood and artist Becky Cloonan is finally collected together into
this complete, bookshelf format volume.] Book of the Week 12/7/05: A very different series, this consists of twelve short stories related only loosely by theme, each involving somebody with some kind of extra ability, most of the comic book super-power type. But the stories are anything but super-hero stories, reading more like literary short fiction, keenly evocative of character and place with less emphasis on storyline and action. Demo is something different for Brian Wood (he is now doing a similar series in Local), and he knocks it out of the park. If you've ever wondered what the X-Men would be like if they were published in The New Yorker, this might be it. 