FINAL CUT
CHARLES BURNS
★★★☆☆
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Publisher Pantheon/
Jonathan Cape
Writer/artist Charles Burns
GRAPHIC NOVEL Over the course
of this 224-page hardback, Charles Burns lovingly recreates passages from the classic 1956 version of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers and the coming-of-age drama The Last Picture Show. To a degree, the book is an amalgamation of the two. Like Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 film, it follows a group of American high-schoolers; along the way, it deploys eerie imagery echoing Don Siegel’s human-duplicating pods.