Book Description: For the first time in the US, ComicsLit brings over the latest enfant terrible of European comics, a mad genius, and for the first time, The Louvre museum is involved in a co-edition of a series of graphic novels. There will be four and each will be a vision of this great museum by a different artist. De Crecy, at the sight of the incredible richness of the museum¹s collection was overwhelmed and felt small and ignorant. The result is a story set thousands of years hence in a glacial period where all human history has been forgotten and a small group of archeologists fall upon the Louvre, buried in age-old snow. They cannot begin to explain all the artifacts they see. What could they have meant? Their interpretations are nonsense, absurd, farcical.
Wasted Potential Glacial Period is a graphic novel about archaeologists of a future ice age Earth rediscovering the Louvre and its treasures. Science fiction and fantasy are blended to tell the story of what happens when the museum's inhabitants are trapped for centuries under the ice.
Beyond the adventuring scientists interpretations of who created the pieces of art they've found, the plot is very minimal, matching the artistic style is well.
"Glacial Period" comes up short despite self-proclaimed greatness. So, what do you get when a hotshot graphic novelist teams up with the Louvre to showcase their works of art with a twist?
Well, you get a short sci-fi book that has a solid start but a contrived, odd end. In short, this is a half-hour read for most and the story was not all that great. It wasn't bad, but it just doesn't live up the self-promotional hype that fills the inside flaps of the front and back covers - such as "Here are the most intelligent comics the world has to offer" and claims that the other is a "mad genius" and his artwork is "breathtaking."
Not really. This one is too sketchy (not the art style, the plot) to be considered great by this reader.
Starts off promisingly but turns into nonsense De Crecy's art is great, the dialog and the premise are good - 1,000 years from now the earth is in a high ice age, and a band of explorers is on an expedition to find out what they can about their ancestors (us). The hero is a sentient, genetically-engineered dog, and there are species-relations tensions. But when they discover the Louvre, the story falls apart into a gimmicky advertisement for the museum - the art comes alive and the story becomes weightless fantasy.
A top pick which stands apart from the usual graphic novel adventure. The first volume of 'Glacial Period' represents a departure from the usual graphic novel format, coming from the Louvre, Paris' famous museum, and extending its art into the pop realm. Two French publishing efforts have joined with a literary comics imprint to produce Glacial Period, in which the Louvre will provide a series of four separate graphic novels by four artists: GLACIAL PERIOD is the first, comes from a rising graphic artists star, and is presented in gorgeous, full color throughout. A top pick which stands apart from the usual graphic novel adventure.
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