The Nobody

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The Nobody takes H.G. Wells's timeless character of "The Invisible Man" and brings him into a modern small town, using him as a cipher to explore themes of identity, fear and paranoia, and how they can turn a small community in on itself and destroy even the most pure of friendships.
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A Jeff Lemire retelling of The Invisible Man. submitted by eknapp on December 31, 2013, 10:32pm The author neatly cribbed a lot of names from the HG Wells novel and the classic movie, some nice little Easter eggs.

Rather than embarking on a homicidal rampage, Lemire's invisible guy makes his way to a tiny Canadian fishing village to hide out and try to find a cure for his condition. A bored teenage waitress befriends him, his only real human contact. The other locals react to the reticent, bandage-covered stranger with a mixture of small-minded suspicion and small-town laissez-faire. And then his former lab partner tracks him down and things get exciting.

The illustrations were typically Lemirean...it feels like watching a movie by a rather artistic director. The author definitely has a vision. Plotwise, I thought it suffered a bit within the constraints of the source story. I might have enjoyed The Nobody more if I weren't familiar with The Invisible Man.