Read separately over a few years, its single volumes feel like fleeting, hazy, episodes, but together they click into an exceptional, tightly drawn narrative arc, full of recurring motifs and layers of erudite referential material.
Whereas Burns’s outstanding Black Hole (1995-2005) was effectively a comic book serial, Last Look reads more like a polished novel in three parts. Typically, omnibus editions are executed for a little extra cash for the author and publisher, or as a slick compilation for collectors, but Last Look is different. Wickedly unsettling and alluring, Charles Burns’s graphic novel Last Look was originally published in three separate hardcover volumes between 20: X’ed Out, The Hive and Sugar Skull.
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