* * *Today we have veteran contributor Brian Nicholson reviewing The Hand of Black and Other Stories, a collection of comics by Martin Cendreda. There's going to be several familiar names on the site this week; it will be cozy like a roaring firepit. But it is also filled with Schrauwen's fascination with language - that of speaking, of narration, of printing. The present-time images depict Thibault with crisp outlines and a predominantly blue hue. This also literalizes formal elements of comics, rendering them as absurd as the highfaluting motives of Thibault's film, which is really a platform for his pining over a lover of his youth, who has since left.