A psychologist could spend a lifetime figuring out what's wrong with Danny Noonan. Well, they can poke him, prod him, lock him up and throw away the key, but in the final analysis, all that really matters is the truth as Danny's quest to save Sadie from the Spiders takes an unexpected detour then descends into the realm of nightmare.
And Laphams art is the only one that could keep up with what hes doing. Every page is working within his eight-panel structure I remember him referring to as the most cinematic for his style in the paratext of the first volume of Stray Bullets. But because of the constant variations, it is hardly noticeable and certainly not repetitive. The issue is devoid of flashy multipage splashes, but this makes sense, Lapham is telling a story not fixiated on putting a bunch of superheroes against each other, his is very much a drama of human lives, no matter how crazy it gets. Read Full Review
This issue ends the first year of "Young Liars" and the book could not be more different from where it began. Who would have thought that 11 months later, the seeming book about club-hopping twenty-somethings and a girl with a bullet in her head would be a book about warring truths, and an invasion of the Spiders from Mars. If year two is anything like year one, David Lapham is truly on his way to producing a masterpiece. Read Full Review
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