ADVANCED REVIEW: Planet Paradise Vol. 1 by Jesse Lonergan

By Bruno Savill De Jong — Jesse Lonergan’s Planet Paradise is foremost an experiment of layouts and design. In this book, the sequential storytelling of comics is rearranged with large blank-spaces and innovative panel juxtaposition, reveling as much in ‘where’ the images are placed as ‘what’ is in them. It’s appropriate for a comic about a woman, Eunice, whose tourist space-ship heading for the titular pleasure planet gets knocked off-course onto a hostile world; her pre-arranged settings and plans have been displaced. Once there, Eunice fights off alien lifeforms and cares for the crotchety spaceship captain as they wait to get the passengers (still safely in hyper-sleep) back on-track.

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