Finder: Talisman

Author: Carla Speed McNeil

Delving into my comics, I know that this one isn't going anywhere. Finder is one of my favorite series and although Talisman is a minor story--a meditation on the creative process--it is still as solid as any of McNeil's other stories. What surprised me in revisiting this piece was its strong thematic connection to the next story Dream Sequence. In fact, McNeil gives a firm visual reference to this connection with the concluding page of Talisman and the concluding pages of Dream Sequence--the former being an image of a hand with a pencil preparing to draw on a blank page, the latter being an image of McNeil herself talking to the audience about telling stories. Given the involvement of Talisman's main character in a segment of Dream Sequence, Talisman can act as an effective extended prologue to Dream Sequence.

Status: Bookshelf