Exo-review: Steve Flanagan on Alice in Sunderland

My good buddy Joe Gordon of the FPI Blog points me in the direction of a review of Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland by Steve Flanagan on his blog Gad, Sir! Comics! (a blog I'll be sticking in my Google Reader for future reference).

Steve's review is intriguingly inventive - at least, it's not a technique that I've seen before, and neither has Joe, and I reckon he'll have seen more comics reviews than most - because he's created a panel-based review of the title and has drawn himself into the frames as a cartoon narrator; neatly echoing the style of Alice in Sunderland itself (so Joe tells me; I haven't gotten hold of a copy myself yet).

It's certainly a refreshing change from seeing paragraphs and paragraphs of prose and makes the review much more readable as well as highly memorable. I reckon Steve may well have set a new standard for reviewing graphic media: by doing so in a graphic medium. Great stuff.