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Xiao Jun - Shadow of Visions, vol. 01-02 (orig. Chi.)
Mon, Jun. 30th, 2008 09:49 am(Title in Chinese: 幽夢影)
Que Ying Shuang's life is going very nicely until she runs across a half-dead Shan Yu Mu in the streets. She takes him in and finds out that he wanders from village to village because he has the ability to draw the future (like Kaitlyn in Dark Visions!) and most people tend to think he causes bad things to happen. Sure enough, bad things start to happen to Ying Shuang, and soon, she leaves to wander about with Yu Mu.
While the plot is somewhat interesting in a "bad things happen to those who think they can change fate" kind of way, the art is pretty terrible. It's very much like Yi Huan's: round and strangely stiff, and I can't help but think that the proportions are all off in some way. I did like that it was set in Song Dynasty China, but outside of that, everything seems fairly standard, and even if the plot moves away from one-offs and focus on the main villain to developing the relationship between Yu Mu and Ying Shuang, I'm still not sure I would be into it. There's just not much depth or sophistication in the story or the characterization, although Xiao Jun does have narrative drive down.
Que Ying Shuang's life is going very nicely until she runs across a half-dead Shan Yu Mu in the streets. She takes him in and finds out that he wanders from village to village because he has the ability to draw the future (like Kaitlyn in Dark Visions!) and most people tend to think he causes bad things to happen. Sure enough, bad things start to happen to Ying Shuang, and soon, she leaves to wander about with Yu Mu.
While the plot is somewhat interesting in a "bad things happen to those who think they can change fate" kind of way, the art is pretty terrible. It's very much like Yi Huan's: round and strangely stiff, and I can't help but think that the proportions are all off in some way. I did like that it was set in Song Dynasty China, but outside of that, everything seems fairly standard, and even if the plot moves away from one-offs and focus on the main villain to developing the relationship between Yu Mu and Ying Shuang, I'm still not sure I would be into it. There's just not much depth or sophistication in the story or the characterization, although Xiao Jun does have narrative drive down.