Absorbing aspects of the manga he was interested in along with aspects of Jack Kirby comics and Fawcett's Captain Marvel, it's interesting how its themes still resonate with The Sculptor. His first major series was Zot!, which was a breath of fresh air when it debuted in the 1980s. Let's unpack these critiques in light of the story and McCloud's long career. Third, the essentialist nature of McCloud's stances on art that are on display in his famous Understanding Comics also hold sway here, a bias that I found tremendously tedious and distracting. The final "action sequence" is laughably silly in light of the rest of the book. Indeed, the book is repetitive and often tedious in exploring its main characters.
Second, the pacing of the book is herky-jerky, with little in it justifying its extreme length. First, the way the female love interest is portrayed betrays a staggering lack of nuance regarding mental illness and borders on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope that plagues a certain kind of romantic drama. I have three fundamental difficulties with Scott McCloud's years-in-the-making opus, The Sculptor.
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