![]() ![]() More successful are Tauss's manipulations of black-and-white pictures-even if the spreads' burnished, silver-and-gray tones appear to be more Gothic than comic. ![]() The prose is too literal to emulate the pacing or excitement of a kerpow-style comic book (e.g., "They flew high above the city, spreading Gigundo JuiceĮverywhere"). Unfortunately the text is not quite up to the visual talents on display here. ![]() " Maleek and Marvyn then hop into a soda-pop–powered flying thingamajig called a Gyropod and restore all the city's parks and playgrounds into a green-space worthy of the rainforest, with bouquets blossoming even from the tops of skyscrapers. Machine," the hero heads back 500 years and assembles plants into a growth-accelerating " Gigundo Juice With his trusty robot, Marvyn, at his side, and the help of the " time-o-matic-whenever-wherever Maleek awakes one day to discover that all the city's parks and playgrounds have vanished. ) inventive if uneven photo-illustrated tale, a boy urban-dweller named Maleek puts aside his beloved superhero comic books and assumes his own crime-fighting identity (complete with costume cape and goggles). ![]()
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