A review by mschlat
Finder: Third World by Jenn Manley Lee, Bill Mudron, Carla Speed McNeil
4.0
I'm a big fan of the Finder series and am very glad to see McNeil publishing new stuff under the Dark Horse banner. Most of the work in this volume was originally presented in Dark Horse Presents on a monthly basis, meaning that it's in color (first time for Finder) and is comprised of small chunks (eight to twelve pages at a time).
If you are not familiar with Finder, McNeill's protagonist is Jaeger, who among other strange abilities can always get himself anywhere and find practically anything. Not surprisingly, he finds himself a job in this volume for a courier company. The setting is a mixture of some science fiction, a bit of fuzzy culture, and a lot of the life of indigenous peoples. It's basically like nothing else I read; McNeill seems to excel at producing the sui generis works that I associate with comics artists like [a:Donna Barr|163322|Donna Barr|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/f_50x66-e0ba3b90c110cd67123d6a850d85373e.png] or [a:Larry Marder|816108|Larry Marder|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-d9f6a4a5badfda0f69e70cc94d962125.png]. Their worlds are real, compelling, and (oddly) logical with huge amounts of otherness and still a strongly emotional grounding. If you like the comic book Saga, it dips in the same pond McNeill regularly swims in: depictions of people you know in settings you cannot imagine.
If you are not familiar with Finder, McNeill's protagonist is Jaeger, who among other strange abilities can always get himself anywhere and find practically anything. Not surprisingly, he finds himself a job in this volume for a courier company. The setting is a mixture of some science fiction, a bit of fuzzy culture, and a lot of the life of indigenous peoples. It's basically like nothing else I read; McNeill seems to excel at producing the sui generis works that I associate with comics artists like [a:Donna Barr|163322|Donna Barr|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/f_50x66-e0ba3b90c110cd67123d6a850d85373e.png] or [a:Larry Marder|816108|Larry Marder|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-d9f6a4a5badfda0f69e70cc94d962125.png]. Their worlds are real, compelling, and (oddly) logical with huge amounts of otherness and still a strongly emotional grounding. If you like the comic book Saga, it dips in the same pond McNeill regularly swims in: depictions of people you know in settings you cannot imagine.