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| | Two Skills in Tandem |
 | | Kim is a maestro at capturing the perfect offhanded expression, the perfect revealing pose, the snapshot that freezes time at just the right moment, with such apparent ease that it seems almost unconscious, desultory. |
 | | Usually funny, sometimes sad and bittersweet, they are a welcome relief from the Simon stories, which, although beautifully produced as always, were edging toward dangerously solipsistic territory: bitterly comic stories about being a 29-year-old virgin give Kim the chance to indulge his worst instincts as a writer, to slosh around in warm, goopy self-pity. |
 | | Now, with the first long and substantial works of his mature period under his belt, he's wise to experiment with loose, short comics, to relax his smooth finishes and technical perfectionism, to give his art a chance to breathe. |
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