![]() ![]() For me there’s something about Lando’s silent narratives that demand they should be read for the first time without outside influence that the reader should interact with them on an individual basis, eliciting an untainted emotional response before that experience is marred to some degree by comics commentators prodding, poking and attempting to dissect them. ![]() ![]() I must freely admit to engaging in a certain amount of procrastination in regards to this review of Gardens of Glass, and that’s despite my selection of it as a Staff Pick in the week it was published here at Broken Frontier. While a number of creative voices have lent their approaches to the anthology it’s the names of those two co-founders that are synonymous with the core artistic vision of Decadence Comics. Published last year by Breakdown Press, Gardens of Glass – Lando’s retrospective collection of short story strips from the last few years of Decadence Comics – explores “ideas of human existence beyond the Anthropocene Epoch” or, if you’d prefer it in blunter parlance, life in a post-apocalyptic world after we, as a species, have stopped having any significant influence on the planet.ĭecadence, of course, is the name of both the comics collective that Lando set up with fellow artist Stathis Tsemberlidis over a decade ago and also the flagship comic of its publishing output. ![]()
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