David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp was a quite unique piece of literature to read, both visually and mentally. What I really loved about this comic is how much art style was explored in many different scenes. The alternating art style is showcased especially in the parts where Asterios and his wife Hana get into arguments and it shows their opposing emotions and thoughts between each other. Being a very linear and logical thinker, Asterios’s appearances changes into a geometric figure made up of blue rectangles and triangles. On the other hand, Hana is an artist with an open and creative sense of thinking, thus she appears pink with an abstract appearance that contrasts greatly from her husband’s. When their situation becomes settled and they both come back together in sync, they go back to the usual simple purple linework and become united with the constant art style of the main parts of the story. I found this concept interesting in the story because it gave me a different perspective on the way humans think. I feel like Mazzucchelli practically took psychology and turned it into a piece of artwork to make it easier to understand.
The ending was the most abrupt thing I have ever seen. So abrupt, that I didn’t even realize I was at the end of the comic until I got there. Which I find intriguing, because we actually don’t know what really happened after that single shot in the story. That basically leaves it to our imagination. Does it continue with a happy ending and the story goes on based on the conversation prior to the incident, or do we accept the implication of what happens as the true ending and leave it there? This whole comic makes you think about things in a totally different way from start to finish, it’s crazy.
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