It’s not uncommon for a film’s best and most memorable character to be the locale in which it takes place: the sweat drenched glitz and grime of a Michael Mann cityscape, the paradise-turned-Hell of WWII Polynesia in The Thin Red Line, the looming shadows of Jean-Pierre Melville’s noir vision of Paris. So too is the […]
Gutters Should Be Called Hedges: Mystery Girl, Why Don’t You Feel Like London?
This is the third entry in Claire Napier’s column, Gutters Should Be Called Hedges, which focuses on the role nature and natural settings play in comics. You can read the introduction to the column here and past entries here. Mystery Girl is a new comic, two or three issues in now, which debuted in late 2015 with […]