Shawn Granger

Sadly this book was a choppy execution of mediocre story containing far too much violence and not enough plot development. I fear it is a victim of the comic book culture which spends far too much time recycling itself and not enough time looking for new stories to tell. The basic premise of the story had some promise, but the execution falls back on the violent clichés of the comic book world. Far too often comics attempt to make a story all action and action is great but it can’t be all there is. When this happens (as is the case in this book) stories wind up feeling very abbreviated, choppy, and disjointed. Usually this seems due to either inexperience, rushed work, or too much comic book reading and not enough reading of well written novels and short stories. I get the impression that the problems here are due to the first item on the list. Perhaps if the artist keeps at it they will build those skills and future works will shine. Unfortunately this one didn’t… (más)

Innocent is a collection of a webcomic, and it shows. It's not quite polished enough to be great. Not bad, mind you, but not great. The interaction between the two main characters doesn't really seem fleshed out enough. The last story in the book was the best for me - and only the angelic character was involved. The concept itself is novel and fresh, but I felt like were this not self-published online first, a good editor would have been able to help clean this work up considerably. If I met Mr. Granger at a trade show, I'd consider picking up Volume 2, but this won't ever rise up enough on my radar to seek out otherwise.… (más)