However, there is one aspect of the art that changes this comic from flawless to hit and miss, and it’s a big problem: the character designs. There’s so much improvement from his first issue of The Pack in how he uses the page’s layout to his advantage, and it’s great to see him coming into his own. This whole first issue plays out like a storyboard that’s better than the actual movie could ever be.

This leads to a very streamlike reading experience and allows you to focus on the artwork and what’s going on in the page. I mean, look at this.Īs your eyes dark from image to image it’s like different camera angles.The dialogue is also short, sparse and doesn’t clutter the page. It’ll often go from a bigger picture of the background. It will often give you a massive picture of the environment and have a few smaller panels scattered around honing in on certain details or cutting away to a character in the ship. This gives it a really cinematic feel, and you genuinely feel like you’e watching a switching from shot to shot.

Part of the strength also lies in how it’s formatted. Stylistically, there’s a lot of improvement from his work on The Packabout how he uses the layout. Not only that, but he also has an interesting use of colours: using bright reds or blues to give the planets a really unnatural, otherworldly atmosphere. The aesthetic combines African tribal artwork and designs with your typical star wars space opera design to create a slight variation on your typical space opera aesthetic.

I’ve never seen another graphic novel with art quite like that. So now that it’s finally out, what was it like? Well, so far it’s only really the opening action sequence- but is it one hell of an action sequence with amazing use of art.Īs you can probably see from the cover the graphic novel, the art work is extremely distinctive and looks great. I’m always on the look out for something new and creative, so when I heard that there was going to be a space opera inspired by African art, I thought ‘count me in.’ I waited for months in anticipation.

Yohancé by Paul Louise-Julie