Ravana. by Abhimanyu Singh Sisodia by Abhimanyu Singh Sisodia

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Fantastic work.

The script has rather nice vignettes scattered throughout – for example, that Sita is mythically the daughter of the Earth goddess, and that Ravana, the king of the underworld as well as Lanka abducting her has definite echoes with the Graeco-Roman myth of Hades/Pluto abducting Persephone/Proserpine. Also the mythical origin of the Rudraveena (this was especially good to learn) – first forged by Ravana from his own veins while meditating to placate the great Shiva – Rudra, destroyer of worlds.

The art is a definite standout. There are a number of frames here that I'd like to put up on my wall. The book's painter, Sachin Nagar, has a stellar visual imagination. It also helps that he's used software-forged techniques like speed-painting to aid and edit the artwork to lend it a kind of polish so far rare in comic-art hereabouts.

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