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Is this a graphic novel-type book?

Chris Everson No... but a knowledge of the comic-book stories behind the rants... monologues.. is helpful.

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I love the Avant Garde storyline, with heroes whose powers derive from artistic concepts. Most make sense: CHIAROSCURO brings 2D images to life, for example, and STILL LIFE of course stops time. Two of them confuse me. --GRAYSCALE is a shape-shifter --ZEITGEIST can make people do things by giving them verbal instructions How do these powers follow, conceptually? How is grayscale related to shape shifting?

Piper I recall that grayscale was actually grayscale in colouration: like he didn't have colour, though he could shapeshift (but stay black-and-white in wha…moreI recall that grayscale was actually grayscale in colouration: like he didn't have colour, though he could shapeshift (but stay black-and-white in whatever form). It's not related to the shapeshifting power in theme.

As for ZeitGeist, the definition is "the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time." So in TRM world: the persuasion power of the villain is like that of a popular idea that takes you over, rather than describes the belief of a certain period of time in history. He controls your spirit for a time.(less)

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Would this book be considered young adult?

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