![]() ![]() ![]() Lonely Girl/Married Mom’s observations ring particularly true. “Disconnect” focuses on LG/MM raising her young daughter against the backdrop of a strained marriage. “Disconnect” is a second diary of sorts, her internal narration guiding us subtly through episodes in her life over a series of years. We can see so much of the plot and themes of “Disconnect” in this full page, for instance:īut Ware also packs plenty of storytelling into his prose in “Disconnect,” where he continues the story of Lonely Girl, who it’s probably better to now call Married Mom-I still think of her as Lonely Girl though, after first really meeting her in “September 23rd, 2000,” an episode ostensibly narrated by her diary. Ware clearly understands the economy of his medium, and some of Building Stories’ finest moments have been wordless ones where Ware constructs the story in pure imagery. ![]() Sure, there are exceptions-Joe Sacco and Harvey Pekar come to mind-but in general, I think comics are at their best when thought and word bubbles are uncluttered (or nonexistent). Wordiness tends to kill illustrated storytelling, at least in my estimation. “Disconnect,” one of the longer episodes in Chris Ware’s novel Building Stories, serves as a reminder of Ware’s strength as a prose writer. ![]()
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