DerBonk

September 9, 2009 4:51 pm I really enjoyed it as well.Really like the art as well. All in all, what I enjoyed most was the tone and the atmosphere it managed to build in just 4 pages. Light-hearted and without consideration of consequence. Just like the dude on the throne.

August 4, 2009 4:54 pm

I know I'm a bit late to this thread, but anyway, I wanted to chime in.

I got this book last year for Christmas, just as I was about to really get into comics. As a German comics certainly were part of my childhood, but never after that (I only read Disney comics btw, super hero comics aren't all that popular with kids (and esp. with parents) over here). Reading about this book on BoingBoing and knowing that I really want to start reading comics (Y: The Last Man pushed me over the edge whan I read the first issue online), I just blindly chose a few books and those were Laika and Three Shadows (both from First Second).

Long story short: This book made me realize how great a medium comics are. Yes, Y: The Last Man has a great story and really good art, but it's not even close to the beauty of Three Shadows. It's completely different actually and so Three Shadows showed me how much more comics can be and that made me incredibly excited about the medium and has basically fueled my enthusiasm for it ever since.

Now, one thing that I have loved about my copy is the production quality, thick paper, a wonderful cover and just generally a great look and feel of the book. What I really love are the "torn" pages, meaning that the right edge of most pages doesn't look clean cut, but torn off (in a straight line, but still with fuzzy edges). However I've never encountered anyone else mentioning that, is my copy actually a production error? This was one of the parts I absolutely loved about this book, it made it feel somewhat hand-made and raw, which fits the atmosphere of the story and especially the charcoal sketches perfectly.