{"id":25489,"date":"2022-01-31T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=25489"},"modified":"2022-01-30T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T22:26:10","slug":"the-fall-of-homunculus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2022\/01\/31\/the-fall-of-homunculus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall of Homunculus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/78B6A603-AACB-4933-B51C-9DC35CB165C2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"509\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/78B6A603-AACB-4933-B51C-9DC35CB165C2.jpeg 506w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/78B6A603-AACB-4933-B51C-9DC35CB165C2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/78B6A603-AACB-4933-B51C-9DC35CB165C2-250x251.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/78B6A603-AACB-4933-B51C-9DC35CB165C2-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><br \/>\nBy <strong>Pentti Otsamo<\/strong> (Drawn &amp; Quarterly)<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1896597157 (PB)<\/p>\n<p>Joel and Anna are a young couple just getting by. They both have great artistic aspirations, but when Anna falls pregnant their previously harmonious partnership begins to unravel. Does Joel&#8217;s confusion and reluctance mean that they are not as compatible as he&#8217;d believed? Does Anna&#8217;s willingness to put her career on hold show her lack of dedication to her art?<\/p>\n<p>Unless they truly communicate, how can they learn what each truly wants and needs?<\/p>\n<p>This pensive Graphic Novella is a brief yet telling examination of the creative urge and process that makes some telling points about competing human drives, and the nature of creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Such a gentle tragedy makes no great leaps forward or claims to innovation, but this tale is honest and engaging, and the inviting and expressive black and white artwork is subversively addictive.<\/p>\n<p>Regrettably out of print and currently unavailable in digital editions, this a beguiling and rewarding yarn long overdue for a comeback and creative reassessment. Get it if you can.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a9 1998 Pentti Otsamo. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Pentti Otsamo (Drawn &amp; Quarterly) ISBN: 978-1896597157 (PB) Joel and Anna are a young couple just getting by. They both have great artistic aspirations, but when Anna falls pregnant their previously harmonious partnership begins to unravel. Does Joel&#8217;s confusion and reluctance mean that they are not as compatible as he&#8217;d believed? Does Anna&#8217;s willingness &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2022\/01\/31\/the-fall-of-homunculus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Fall of Homunculus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[239,214,216,105,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-european","category-lifestyle","category-mature-reading","category-romance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-6D7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25491,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25489\/revisions\/25491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}