![]() ![]() ![]() And yet its thematic resonance with the here-and-now still feels like serendipity in action. Here’s the thing, though: there’s nothing about the current world situation, or the situation depicted in the book, that’s in any way happy. Perhaps even more uncannily, the story is set in 2005 - and yet none of this matters a whit in the overall scheme of things: it’s the right book at the right time, regardless. There’s no way this could have been planned from the outset, of course - Boydell was working on it well before anyone knew what COVID-19 even was. The dictionary tells me that “serendipity” is defined as: “the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way,” but I think I’m ready to take exception to that - and as proof, I offer British cartoonist Remy Bodell’s new Image Comics-published graphic novel, 920London, which may just be the perfect read for these socially distanced, often even outright isolated, times. ![]()
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