Review of Leviathan on BoingBoing

[TordelBack]

Nice review of the Leviathan GN over on BoingBoing.  Should be worth a few downloads sales.

I was sorry main story wasn't longer than it is, because it hints at a many possibilities for other avenues to explore. But that's also a testament to the skill of the comic's creators, who were able to render an impressive sense of dimensionality and atmosphere in a 56-page story.

Was it really only 56 pages?  Blimey.

http://boingboing.net/2012/04/25/leviathan-graphic-novel-of-a.html

[Professor Bear]

Sounds a bit like Gutsville.

[Emperor]

Luckily someone steps in there with a link to D'Israeli's blog and that someone is... Mike Gloady. 

Someone there does point to James Lovegrove's first novel The Hope:

The Hope is a vast ocean liner, five miles long and two miles wide and one mile high, which lurches through the waves on a voyage to nowhere, carrying a million passengers in her rusting belly. After some thirty years at sea, everyone aboard her has gone just a little bit loopy, and violent death has become a way of life. All sorts of horrors lurk in the ship's darkest corners — rumours made flesh, unspeakable creatures, peripheral-vision insanities. The only certainty is this: the Hope, which was once a multimillionaire philanthropist's dream, has become a floating nightmare.

http://www.jameslovegrove.com/books/253/the-hope/

Anyway good to see Leviathan get a high profile review, it definitely needs to be read by more people.

[Professor Bear]

Heh.  Someone has been a naughty boy there...

[IndigoPrime]

Maybe, but "massive ocean liner gets lost and odd things happen" is hardly a unique concept.