--- product_id: 36699620 title: "Soft City: The Lost Graphic Novel" brand: "hariton pushwagnerchris waremartin herbert" price: "€ 125.19" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.cy/products/36699620-soft-city-the-lost-graphic-novel store_origin: CY region: Cyprus --- # Soft City: The Lost Graphic Novel **Brand:** hariton pushwagnerchris waremartin herbert **Price:** € 125.19 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Soft City: The Lost Graphic Novel by hariton pushwagnerchris waremartin herbert - **How much does it cost?** € 125.19 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.cy](https://www.desertcart.com.cy/products/36699620-soft-city-the-lost-graphic-novel) ## Best For - hariton pushwagnerchris waremartin herbert enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted hariton pushwagnerchris waremartin herbert brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Soft City: The Lost Graphic Novel ## Images ![Soft City: The Lost Graphic Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61SgyOiXoRL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Like nothing else *by W***D on Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2018* It's basically a wordless graphic novel - there are words here and there, but more for atmosphere than actual dialog or narration. And it's B&W - there are a few spots of color, but they just emphasize the surrounding starkness. And it's all line drawing - solid masses of color do appear, but only rarely. And detailed, with endless architectural geometries, swarming masses of people and cars, and office bullpens that seem to go on forever. And, somehow, it combines claustrophobic crowds and traffic jams with agoraphobic chasms of concrete, with people dwarfed by looming facades. The dichotomy of horizontal oceans of interchangeable people vs soaring, upright facades of nearly featureless structures - it almost seems as if the two elements belong to different worlds.All of which follows a dystopic "day in the life" story line. The 1960s-70s origin is fairly apparent, but it's stood up to time far better than many stories. If people in modern society seem ground down to fit a common mold and pattern of life, this could be your worst nightmare. Although elements of individuality remain in just about every scene of human hordes, the spare, linear drawing style robs most characters of any individuality. I tried to compare it to things like the Bladerunner movie, with similar visual themes of dense population and architecture on inhuman scales, but comparison failed. Bladerunner kept far too much personality in the people and things portrayed - this turns people into indistinguishable pebbles on a very large beach.I like it, like it a lot. That said, this won't work for every reader. If it's not your thing, I can see why. But for the rest of us, it's a unique experience.-- wiredweird ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An Odd Formerly Lost Relic *by D***Y on Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2019* Apparently it is a miracle that this book even exists. Considered lost for thirty years, it was then wrapped up in legal disputes for at least fifteen more, and now has finally been published to less than commercial fanfare, but to the joy of graphic artists and comic connoisseurs across the globe. This is the city high-rise, middle manager, version of Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”. We see the actions of one family as they go through their regular day of wake up, commute to work, do their job, shop, TV, sleep. This is reflected by thousands of people about them doing the same actions. The commuting parts I appreciate, as they go on for pages and pages, accurately reflecting the tediousness of going to and from work, and just how much of your valuable life is eaten up in this activity. One might discuss the action (or perhaps non-action) of this book in terms of the banality of existence, the dehumanization of the individual in corporate society, the purposelessness of modern Western first world life, but it is more than that. The people here aren’t mindless drones. We see snatches of their dreams and fantasies popping up in the urban landscape. These are of the escapist sort: desert islands, beautiful women and men, flying aces in an old war. These are people with dreams not just drones. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Work work work ... and it all adds up to ... what? *by T***N on Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2017* While we've learned to be wary of "forgotten treasures" in popular art—sometimes there's a good reason they were forgotten, after all!—there's no fear of that with this stunning, fittingly oversized book. Soft City is the future seen from our recent past, extrapolating a uniform life for all in a uniform world of uniform work, a simple yet detailed vision of all-encompassing, soul-destroying banality.Now, one of the positive blurbs for this book states, "Even if these anxieties are no longer quite the same—if we now inhabit a world in which the absence of work is more terrifying than its overbearing presence—there is still value to Pushwagner’s vision." This may be true ... but either way, work & its necessity, with its domination & crushing of the human soul, remains true as well.And of course there's more to it than that. Work is merely the outward expression of a state of mind, the endless treadmill of consumption without satisfaction, where the illusion of constant innovation in a million shiny digital ways blinds consumers to the unchanging nature of their existence. In this deeper aspect, "Soft City" is frighteningly up-to-date—whether we've got work or not, it's what determines our lives & substitutes for genuine meaning—this need for More, always More, that never gets us anywhere except closer to the end of an unlived life. 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