Graphic Novel Review

     I decided to review a graphic novel I found online at  www.dccomics.com/media/excerpts/1736_1.pdf known as The Last Man. This is the story of the last man on Earth in the midst of an all female population. Words in the novel are primarily used to show lapse of time and dialogue. The time lapses are present in-order-to connect different events that are occurring simultaneously. The rest of the words are in the form of character dialogue, which presents the reader with an idea that that the story is being told from a 3rd person omniscient perspective. We do not know who is telling the story, but there is definitely an unseen narrator. The pictures in this graphic novel are connected with the words and help to tell the story. They have either powerful or startling images, or dull backgrounds and color schemes that correlate with what is going on currently. The frames of the graphic novel were broken up as to show one event per page typically, except in the case of the time lapse scenarios, in which all word, picture, and frame shared a special connection. It doesn't seem to me as any aspect of the work really stood out by itself as saying more than the other. It appears is if words,pictures, and frames were all carefully constructed to keep a sense of order amongst the chaos that is this story.