The Nobody by Jeff Lemire

After I completed Jeff Lemire’s graphic trilogy,Essex County, I have been craving more by Jeff Lemire. Yes, I am a graphic novel convert.  Blame Jeff Lemire and a couple fellow bloggers for that.  LOL! I checked my local library website and found that The Nobody was available.  So, I snatched it up.

The Nobody is quite different than the Essex County Trilogy.  It is Jeff Lemire’s re-telling of H. G. Well’s The Invisible Man.

A man all wrapped up in bandages shows up in the small town, Large Mouth.  He calls himself Griffen and he gets a motel room.  There is talk about him in the town bar and the cafe.  Some of the town’s people are very suspicious of him.  

However, a teenager, Vickie is curious about Griffen. and goes to his motel room to talk.  They strike up a kind of friendship but Griffen is not the kind of man that Vickie think she is.  He has a big secret and has come to Large Mouth to hide

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I enjoyed this story but not as much as the Essex County Trilogy.  Lemire didn’t capture the emotions of his characters like he did in Essex County.  The characters in this story were quite two-dimensional and quite stereotypical.   However, the relationship between Vickie and Griffen was interesting.  Where Lemire did shine is with his drawing.  It was the calibre of drawing that I have come to expect from him.

3.5

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