![]() ![]() I've read it half a dozen times and it still stands up. (As a side note, he followed it up with EIGHTBALL #22, a comic that has to remain exactly what it is. The three-act structure almost begs to be remade for film. I got the feeling that this book was a direct result from working on the GHOST WORLD script. It was first published in 1989 by Fantagraphics Books as a Spiritual Successor to Clowess previous comic series Lloyd Llewellyn. As his loyalties stray you find that he's in love with The Girl, an image he's created long before he finds the physical incarnation deemed worthy. Eightball is a comics anthology series written and drawn by Daniel Clowes. ![]() ![]() David's objects of desire are laced with his sexual obsessions, a Clowes strongpoint. Soon personalities clash and blood is spilt.Ĭlowes' first book after GHOST WORLD still features an intense, close friendship but mixes in a distant mother, an estranged father and the clues to their break up hidden in fragmented panels of a yellowing comic book. The second chapter is set on a small island as relatives and friends shelter from what they believe to be the coming apocalypse. ![]() She understands the powers she holds and milks his fixations for her own ego and to taunt another lover. Three separate acts, three turns in direction.ĭavid briefly finds the girl of his dreams while on the way to a funeral. ![]()
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