Blackbird Days [Hardcover]

In this collection, two giant robots battle it out in a European metropolis; an engineer is asked to inspect something unusual at a marble quarry; a recently relocated father loses his young son in Berlins Tempelhof Park; the painter Arnold B?cklin takes a trip before he paints his famous masterpiece,Italian comics master Manuele Fior plays with form and style in the enormously entertainingFior is an incredible craftsman, and the handsome art in this volume makes it worthy of attention.Sometimes, shorter works by such creators of accomplished longer pieces like are not as satisfying, but Fior does a beautiful, haunting job at allowing the same richness to lurk within these stories that are slight only in page count.Fior showcases his versatility and mastery of the form in this collection of short literary comics fiction.