“ELLIUM: RISE OF THE FALLEN …definitely a Comic You Should Be Reading!”
July 17, 2007
Dan Head from PAPERBACK READER has some glowing words to say about the DVD release of ELLIUM: RISE OF THE FALLEN by Asylum Ink! Swing on over to PAPERBACK READER to check out the full review!
“Two things made this project work for me: the art and the music. Yes, Ellium is a sequential art project, and as such it’s a fundamentally visual piece, but the music is absolutely critical to the mood and the flavor of the story these guys are telling. The music is literally perfect. Haunting but not overbearing, it sucks you in and helps control the tempo of your reading even as it sets the mood. Plus, since you are reading, you’re working. You’re helping to tell yourself the story. That’s better than TV—at least for me—because it forces me to feel for the characters in a way that I rarely do with television or movies. It brings me in. And that makes the very occasional sound effects that much more shocking. You aren’t expecting them. They hit you hard and go through you more powerfully than onomatopoeia on the page ever does. The traditional comic experience isn’t normally this all-encompassing, but after you see this DVD, you’ll wish it was.
And then too, there’s the art. This DVD marks Jason’s return to drawing by hand, and that shows BIG TIME. He’s used a mixture of pencils, inks, charcoal, water colors, and computer animation to create a texture and a feel that is totally unique in comics today. You won’t see anything that even remotely resembles this anywhere else, and that’s the point. It’s an indie project. These guys are pushing the boundaries in every direction, and I for one am loving it” -Dan Head PAPERBACK READER
