If there is something that Lemire is excellent at it is artistically portraying lonliness in black, white and blue. The Essex County trilogy by far is his best and most complete work - lonliness but also longing and struggles to communiicate and connect.Many of his other works are similar takes on this - The Underwater Welder, Sweet Tooth and The Nobody. I liked this better than the Underwater Welder, which I think was trying to accomplish too much to be successful. While the storyline isn't super strong here, it does keep it simple and allows you to focus on the characters. Other strengths: pacing, tone and frame are all well done. I think between Essex County and Sweet Tooth, there is a Lemire for everyone and every fan of graphic novels should try one! A Jeff Lemire retelling of The Invisible Man. He neatly cribbed a lot of names from the HG Wells novel and the classic movie, some nice little Easter eggs. Rather than embarking on a homicidal rampage, Lemire's invisible guy makes his way to a tiny Canadian fishing village to hide out and try to find a cure for his condition. A bored teenage waitress befriends him, his only real human contact. The other locals react to the reticent, bandage-covered stranger with a mixture of small-minded suspicion and small-town laissez-faire. And then his former lab partner tracks him down and things get exciting.The illustrations were typically Lemirean...it feels like watching a movie by a rather artistic director. The author definitely has a vision. Plotwise, I thought it suffered a bit within the constraints of the source story. I might have enjoyed The Nobody more if I weren't familiar with The Invisible Man.
What do You think about Monsieur Personne (2010)?
The art is great, but story wise, it felt a bit short, too many questions left unanswered..
—Kenssa
Prime Lemire. I've yet to encounter a work of his I've found disappointing.
—katz
My favorite of Jeff Lemire's comics that I've read so far.
—jstacy
