The small but highly saturated areas of red – the wolf’s eyes, mouth, as well as what appears to be the spill in the bottom quarter of the cover – frame the image of the girl on the motocross bike. The malevolent intent of the wolf seems clear and barely contained. Creepy elements include the red-eyed wolf with it’s open maw hovering behind the girl, as if it will chase her at any moment. I want to stay with this idea of creepy-ish and toughness existing simultaneously. The cover (seen here) is oddly creepy-ish and tough.
I can’t tell you if I ordered it or if it was sent to me by the fine people at FirstSecond publishing but in any case, I’m happy it made it’s way to me. Spill Zone by Scott Westerfeld and Alex Puvilland, colors by Hilary Sycamore was one of the books in my latest stack. I enjoy the sight and allowing the books to pile up because it feels like christmas when I do rip into them. Then things start getting weird.The mailboxes near my office at Boston university School of Education, waiting for me to come and collect them. Highly illegal, but after all a girl has to do what she can to get by. But Addison sneaks in to take photos of the bizarre phenomena that occur throughout the spill zone so she can sell them to collectors. Nobody in or out (even supposing there were people who could get out). It's been three years and the town is still in quarantine.
Addison's parents were working in the hospital and so, like everyone else, didn't make it out in time. Addison was out of town at the time but her sister had another kind of luck, she and a school bus full of kids somehow made it out but never spoke again. And now everything's straight up nuts there. Three years ago, Poughkeepsie (which I only know of through Looneytoons) was destroyed in some sort of toxic mix-up disaster involving a nuclear and a nanobot production facility.
Hilary Sycamore (the colourist) is absolutely on fire here. In any case, this book would not likely survive being B&W because its use of colour is so integral to what it is, to what it is doing. Like with Asterios Polyp only not quite so much. It's one of those books where the colourist really matters. Genre notes: disaster recovery, post-minor-apocalypse Daily Graphic Novel Recommendation 163 Spill Zoneīy by Scott Westerfield, Alex Puvilland, and Hilary Sycamore
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