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 - Good old fashioned detective fictionIt starts with a literal bang and keeps going. A very good period piece that has a lot of twists and turns that keeps you guessing to the very end. Great holiday reading. Rating: - beautiful and unusual... in other words, classic CampbellNothing Campbell does is boring and this is no exception. Like Chris Ware, Campbell employs the utmost creativity with his layouts, the irregularly sized frames in The Black Diamond Detective Agency take the predictable flow of your average comic book and toss it out the window (but it's a good thing) and help move a dense plotline along at a brisk pace. In my opinion this is Campbell's most impressive narrative yet. This is his second book with First Second (The Fate of the Artist, also amazing, was the first) and if you ask me they are a publishing house to watch. They've obviously got a great team over there b/c the books are gorgeously produced and reasonably priced - no easy feat!
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