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Joe Keatinge, Leila Del Duca & Owen Gieni
136 pages, cmyk, digital
"Wanderlost" colects the first six issues of the comic book series "Shutter".
If you're expecting something about traveling and photography you'll be sorely disappointed with this book. But you won't be alone in your disappointment.
"Wanderlost" is about Kate Khristopher, heiress to her father, apparently one of the greatest explorers the world has ever seen. It's the family business: discovering new things and bringing them to light. Kate is over that, she's disenchanted with the world and is now photographing people's dreams. Quirky. The world is a great ball of mess: animals talk; the police fly, well, flying saucers; there are theriomorphic gangster lions roaming the streets and robots and everything imaginable. And still the world is disenchanting. Kate was right. It lacks structure, any kind of logic and seems to have been put together by a god that hasn't thought it through.
That god is Joe Keatinge.
Far from his Glory (badumtss) days, Keatinge seems rushed and inconsistent, every chapter has the same kind of beats (let's end it with a cliffhanger!) and much of the same information is repeated: Kate discovers she's not her father's only daughter and her siblings are bad news. 136 pages of this. Everybody in her life knew about them except her. They're waiting for her, or rather, they're not. They're not good people. They want her dead but they don't. They're bad. Except her younger brother. Let's run away!
Kate is underdeveloped and she's not alone, every character is a sum of characteristics. But characteristics do not make character, so the reader ends up not caring that much for them.
Leila Del Luca's art is the best thing about the book, it's flexible and fun, although sometimes it feels less refined and that's where Owen's Gieni colors make it just okay.
There's a lot of unfulfilled potential here, it just needed a second or third draft.
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