"Nightmare Studio" had a style that was very novel to me. The author's words and pictures almost seemed like a stream of consciousness, just letting one idea flow from the next as naturally as possible (reminiscent of the new advertisements for Bing), which struck me as very interesting in a graphic form. The author expressed ideas in an abstract way that was often hard to grasp completely, but still made sense in a strange way. I wasn't sure exactly what the author was trying to say; is this simply a description of a dream he had? I suppose it seemed more like a general example of what his dreams are often like, rather than referring to one dream in particular. Overall I wasn't sure if this piece was craftily intricate or just overdone.
Pyongyang was also very novel to me. The introduction about the author really hooked me when it pointed out that so few foreigners have ever seen P'yongyang; it made me feel like I was privileged to be accessing such information. The author's narration was very straightforward (a nice contrast to most of the comics in this book), and I thought it very concretely grasped, as well as it could in such brevity, P'yongyang culture, and some of the reasons that their society is how it is. This piece was more interesting from a perspective of intellectual curiosity for me.
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