Look at that would you. Done? Now know that this is not a cover, a pin-up or even a splash page; that image my friends is just one panel among the many in this one hundred-plus page graphic novel. You’d be forgiven if looking at it you assumed it was actually a pristinely stylised photograph and not a panel because aesthetically Changing Ways evokes Fincher more than it does, say, anything done by Moore or Morrison; in fact it almost feels wrong to compare it exclusively to comic-books because it stands so singularly outside the obvious ties of that medium. So it’s ok if you were wondering whether I was reviewing a book or a film, because at times while reading Justin Randall’s locally published book I wondered much the same thing myself.

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