Dead in Desemboque in the El Paso Times
Great review of Dead in Desemboque in today's El Paso Times! (A first for us...)
This marvelous chronicle of a death foretold is a stunning achievement that invites comparisons to Homer's "Odyssey" -- also a story about a love disrupted by the trials and tribulations during one man's dangerous journey back to the arms of his beloved.The changing illustrators give each episode a distinctive and appropriate tone, and Eddy, though his appearance changes slightly with each section, remains an endearing down-on-his-luck hero through every panel and every peril.
Arellano's text in "Dead in Desemboque" moves the genre into a more literary sphere, though it maintains its roots to the tried and true Mexican tradition of engaging storytelling. This graphic novel, aptly subtitled "Historias de Amor y Sangre" ("Tales of Love and Blood"), is a grown-up, old-fashioned Western at heart that highlights the Mexican male in a leading protagonist role and not in a secondary, stereotypical depiction.
This intra-lingual, international historieta is an excellent addition to the popular graphic novel genre.