Writer: Emma Vieceli
Artist: Claudia Leonardi
Publisher: Titan Comics
Softcover, 112pp, $16.99, £13.99
On sale April 2021
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Description
Life is Strange: Partners in Time – Tracks collects issues #13 – #16 of the hit comic series!
The fourth volume of the comic series based on the critically-acclaimed, BAFTA-winning video game Life is Strange, following the weird and wonderful tales of time traveller Max Caulfield!
How far would you go, to get back to the person you love? As Max Caulfield embarks on a road trip across America after coming so close to returning to her own timeline, across the transect Tristan and Chloe follow the same path. But, both Max and Tristan struggle to control their powers and it looks like Max and Chloe may never get their happy ending – unless they can find something, or someone, to help them.
Review
I have not read any of the previous graphic novels of Life is Strange but there is a section at the beginning that tells you what happened previously which I thought was a great help, it also covered who was in Max and Chloe’s universe and who was in Chloe and Rachel’s universe, you really need to look at this as it gives a short description of each character.
Life is Strange Vol 4 is set in two timelines, Max’s and Chloes, Max is trying to get back to the same timeline as Chloe, which seem almost parallel to one another, they go to the same places and can feel each other but it is proving difficult, so close but so far away.
This was interesting to me, I liked how they both ended up in the same place but different worlds and was hoping that the worlds would collide and they would be back with each other. The High Seas band were as I would have expected a band of their age to be depicted.
The artwork is fantastic, each scene was drawn perfectly with so much detail that I knew where they were, I really liked at the end of the book there was a section that showed cover development stages from sketch to cover with descriptions and also character sketches.
Overall I was a little confused to start with but once I got into it it was great. I think reading the previous volumes would be better than jumping into this one first. I will definitely be grabbed the previous volumes so I can catch up properly.
About the Creators
Emma Vieceli is a comics artist and writer who has worked on a variety of projects by esteemed publishers, including Doctor Who, Back to the Future, Jem and the Holograms and Manga Shakespeare. She has also illustrated popular graphic novel adaptations of Vampire Academy and Alex Rider. Her creator-owned success is Breaks, written with MalinRyden.
Claudia Leonardi is an up and coming artist based in Italy. Life is Strange is her breakthrough into the world of comic books, with many more projects to come.
Thank you to Titan Comics for supplying a digital copy of this graphic novel for this review.
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