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Critics, next time read Material with both feet on earth! I've often read articles defending comics proclaiming that they're not just superhero stories and that it is a wonderful way to communicate ideas of every kind: political, social, artistic, et cetera. I've found Material and read it searching google for the books, authors and music or films that Ales Kot thinks it would enrich our experience, pausing, in fact, my usual experience with comics. I find this quite interesting even when reading authors I do not agree with. Material shows you the world as it is, Ales Kot has chosen to talk to whoever wants to "listen" through his comics. He basically starts a discussion of POV in your head. We don't have to have the same perspective as he does but that's not the point, the point is to discuss and talk about those subjects. It's your choice to buy it or not but try this issue. I don't want to talk in advance but I think Material will be here for quite awhile, Ales Kot is a great writer that had me believing he was some kind of Spider Jerusalem with this comic. Yeah, he's not your usual writer but isn't that important? Why do we proclaim as heroes book characters that dare to do something casual in an uncasual way and slam the real artists of our world of doing the same thing? Image Comics is the company once (or still) called indy because it took comics in a different way but critics and some readers keep digging for some kind of unrealistic heroism or intrigue or even evilness in every new comic they find. Will you keep reading comics just for fun, just for the shock or the plot twist or different characters? 'Cause if you do, comics WILL NEVER be seen as more than superhero stories. MATERIAL#1 is a solid 8.5, close 9! I will not give it more 'cause I think it has much more potential but it grabbed me, made me think and search for information and I found new perspectives of this world I live in and that is a great gift we're not getting as often as we should be.
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