Lapsos by Inés Estrada

Lapsos Reviews

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  André Habet

  Love how Estrada experiments with scales of perspective here in ways that never feel self serious. At its heart, a story about navigating a complex friendship and searching for a purpose in life across dimensions. Really fun and loved the burst splash pages into full color. Always felt warned and well executed.
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  Katie Maher

  Re-read of a favorite. :) I was not able to get over how well the author plays with perspective back when I was in high school and it still hits all of this time later.
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  Fredrik Strömberg

  The transformation of the magazine C'est Bon Anthology into a regularly published series of graphic novels by different artists is really, really working. I've enjoyed CBA through the years, but it's always been a mix of interesting and less interesting comics in each issue. Here, I get new books, graphic novels by artists I've mostly never heard of before, and I just love it. This doesn't menat that I think each and every graphic novel is perfect, just that I love the fact that I get books that I didn't specifically order, but because I trust the editorial team. That makes for interesting, new reading experiences.
  
  That said, over to the second book, Lapsos by Inés Estrada. I've seen shorter comics by Estrada before, and found them interesting, so getting the chance to read a whole graphic novel was very welcome. This story is a trip, visually and storytelling wise. We follow two persons, a young man and a young woman from Estrada's Mexico as far as I can tell, who gets sucked into vortex that moves them around into different realities.
  
  Estrada's art changes from iconic to realistic, from two color to four color, in order to capture the feelings of the characters, as they wander through different realities. There is a character, a black catlike creature, that just has to have been inspired by the art of
  Jim Woodring, but mostly I think that this is a truly fresh, new and different voice in comics, which is a good feeling for someone who, like me, who has read far too many comics and graphic novels...
  
  Lapsos is not a prefect graphic novel, but it is interesting and entertaining. Had I been given the choice of half stars, I would probably have given it a ranking of 3.5.
  
  
  I've so far reviewed two books in CBA's new graphic novel series:
  
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  All Saints (CBA #23)
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  Lapsos(CBA #25)
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  Mar-Anhelo

  I am madly in love with Estrada's style. She has an incredible imagination and her creativity does not cease to surprise me. However in Lapsos, I perceive the characters to be unidimensional, and therefore I wasn't able to relate to them, and my desire to engage in the story was null. I would much rather just look at the illustrations, than having to follow the story in Lapsos. The plot is interesting, but it's not quite well developed.
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  Torie

  Mexican punks experience other realms -- a good reminder to remember they exist (the realms, not the punks). Written in slangy Spanish with English translations at the bottom of each page. Ines's drawings of nature and supernature are brilliant.
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  Kim

  first half is great