Here's another comic story that I really love. And I have to ask - it it just me who finds this six-page tale by "Beto" (Gilbert Hernandez) to be hauntingly beautiful and just plain wonderful in its own unique way?
This comes from the second issue of "Measles", the Hernandez brothers' comic for all ages, in 1999. And there's nothing remotely like this in any of the other stories that filled the pages of Measles, not even in the other adventures of Venus. The sense of emptiness in the wide panels, the silence, the wind blowing Venus's hair, her delighted reactions to the mundane Space Fun exhibits... the whole thing just has an eerie, quiet magnificence about it.
Maybe it is just me. Or me and my brother, anyway, because he showed me it in 1999 and agrees completely. What do you think?
