{"id":4287,"date":"2009-12-01T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=4287"},"modified":"2009-12-01T22:52:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T22:52:15","slug":"things-undone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2009\/12\/01\/things-undone\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Undone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Things-Undone-150x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Things-Undone-150x223.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Things-Undone-250x372.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Things-Undone.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><br \/>\nBy <strong>Shane White<\/strong> (NBM\/ComicsLit)<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-56163-563-4<\/p>\n<p>The sheer variety of themes and species in modern cartooning can be quite breathtaking to an old coot who grew up with the severely restricted comics fare of a baby-boomer in Britain &#8211; and I wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way. These days I can peruse a graphic novel on any subject in any style and incorporating any number of converging genres &#8211; and this compelling lit gem comes pretty close to defying categorisation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Things Undone<\/strong> is a little bit romance, a little bit alternative biography, a little bit punk and a whole lot of terrific. Young Rick Watts is an artist and world-weary peon in the art-consuming field of video games graphics. He&#8217;s just moved to Seattle for a new job, but nothing&#8217;s really changed and relationship-wise things aren&#8217;t going so great either. Long-distance never works so he dragged his girl-friend clear across the country, and his seven year hitch with her couldn&#8217;t have ended more badly\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>When you can&#8217;t catch a break and the new life proves no better than the old one, what can a guy do? And it&#8217;s only a matter of time before somebody notices that Rick is a zombie, what with him leaving decaying extremities and eyeballs and such all over the place. Maybe he should just get a gun and do the job right\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6?<\/p>\n<p>This sharp and bittersweet examination of modern life is funny and poignant, using the populist imagery of the walking dead as an effective metaphor for modern life, but it&#8217;s the amazingly comforting art and production (the book is printed in black, white and shocking orange, in a kind of skate-punk cartoon style) that underpins this tale, making the tragic comedic and using confusion as the means of exploring the mundane horrors of urban living.<\/p>\n<p>Clever, witty and one of the most sensitive funny\/sad, real\/imaginary stories you&#8217;ll ever read: so you should.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=allanharveyne-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1561635634&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2009 Studiowhite LLC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shane White (NBM\/ComicsLit) ISBN: 978-1-56163-563-4 The sheer variety of themes and species in modern cartooning can be quite breathtaking to an old coot who grew up with the severely restricted comics fare of a baby-boomer in Britain &#8211; and I wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way. These days I can peruse a graphic novel &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2009\/12\/01\/things-undone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things Undone&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[105,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mature-reading","category-modern-classics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-179","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287","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=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}