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BLEED ANY%, a comic review

This is a series of posts where I'm reviewing comics I've bought from the ShortBox comics fair!


I bought this comic because I like watching speed runs and I was really intrigued by the title - BLEED ANY% by Blue Delliquanti. I also thought the summary sounded really cool:

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Speedrunner Samson859 specializes in the niche augmented reality game The Final Nocturne, which immerses the player in its world using nothing but sound and touch.

The comic didn't disappoint, I really enjoyed the world-building in this, the description of the game - the mystery in the game and the speed running challenge kept me totally absorbed.

The art really contributed to the world-building as well - the character's shifting appearances and the way the soundscape of the game and it's characters is superimposed over the "real world" in the art is a great illustration of what comics do best as medium.

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Really enjoyed this, one of the highlights of the comics I've bought from the festival so far. You can buy BLEED ANY% on the Shortbox comics fair website here, and check out Blue Delliquanti's website as well.

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