![]() Once readers get past the subject matter, the storytelling is fairly straightforward. But Sala harnesses the weirdness to tell a briskly paced thriller. Murmer"), femme fatales, non-humans and so on. The first story (named "Thirteen O'Clock," incidentally) occupies the first 42 pages of the book and brings together many of Sala's preoccupations: strange scientists, detectives, funny names ("Mr. In Sala's world, thieves steal faces, skulls glow, madmen run free, plants eat people and it's always Thirteen O'Clock. This collection of short stories from hither and yon goes back nearly two decades. ![]() His closest antecedent may be Edward Gorey, but Sala's work is all his own. He creates noir stories, some serious, some funny, most both, in a unique visual style. His work is neither fish nor fowl, not too spooky, not too silly and not so far out as to be unreachable. Sala holds a unique place in the comics world. ![]()
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