Letters to the Editor
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Hipsters Ahoy!
Mr. Wolk, I salute you for your insightful review. This is exactly the kind of psedo-art that gets gobbled up in Borders or B&N by young, urban, quasi-intellectual hipster kids who won't really understand what the cartoonists were trying to accomplish, but will spill lavish praise for the book in order to keep their street cred. Meanwhile the line will ever be blurred between solid storytellers who use a more rough-hewn art style, and those who tell couldn't tell a coherent story with a GPS and a spotlight.
There'll be the inevitable rebuttals of, "Hey, a coherent story doesn't *have* to linear, you know." That's very true, but just because Los Bros. Hernadez and Alan Moore can pull it off doesn't make one the Next Great Comics Genius after a few readings. Slapping random images in a disconnected pastiche is just an exercise in pretention, and it's okay to say so.
Dan Clowes once mocked art schools as overpriced daycare centers; oh, how I wish that weren't so accurate.