Mamo
Writer: Sas Milledge
Artist: Sas Milledge
Publisher: Boom Studios
There’s a huge skill in creating a new and original story, and having the nerve to let it unfold at the pace that it needs to be told.
Popular entertainment is plagued by narrative works beginning in medias res, opening in the midst of a plot in an attempt to capture an audience’s attention with an ultra high-impact occurrence, yet failing to understand that without any context that this merely evokes initial audience confusion, and then a lack of substantial climax when the story later reaches this point.
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‘Mamo’ is superbly paced, happy to open with a bike-ride and a conversation-slash-argument between its two lead characters, both completely new to the reader. It takes the time to establish its world and its characters, and their journey - from strangers, to reluctant team-up, to friends, to even more - pays off for the reader because the effort has been made to tell their full story. Readers have been allowed to invest emotionally in the pairing, and to buy into the stakes and struggles that they face.
Arguably most vital to what makes ‘Mamo’ so special is its artwork, whose style feels tangible and pure, as though you’re viewing drawings fresh from the artist’s hand. It’s what allows the reader to be drawn into its charm, and escape into a joyous world of wonder.
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