Kabuki, Volume 5: Metamorphosis Book

What the bleep does David Mack know? This book could have been so much better, but Mack had to ruin it by devoting the entire closing chapter to stating his half-baked new age philosophy taken straight out of the psuedo-scientific movie What the Bleep Do We Know? He has the right to believe in whatever he chooses, of course, but he could have presented his views in a more interesting way by incorporating them into the story rather than having his characters stop in the middle of a chase scene and start babbling about their life philosophies which are all indistinguishable from each other. Quantum mechanics doesn't mean you can shape reality by just believing hard enough. Get over it.

Aside from the new age ranting, this is actually a very good read. The artwork is the best you will see in comics. Mack uses multiple mediums such as pencil, ink, watercolor, and computer graphics as well as changing his style from realistic portrayals to cartoonish figures to go along with mood. He is not bound by traditional comic book framing, indeed many of his pages could stand alone on the walls of an art gallery. Unlike the previous 3 volumes of Kabuki, the plot actually advances this time, although he is still rather repetitious in his story telling. Despite its shortcomings, I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the versatility of the comic book medium.