The book’s first Agent of Change arrives in the unexpected form of David’s Uncle Harry, and its first big turning point comes as David remembers that the last time he saw his uncle, the older man was… dead. Having been thrown over by one high-profile patron, he’s now very clearly up against it: after all, who ever heard of an acclaimed artist not having achieved it all by the age of 26? The sculptor of the title is David Smith, a young man whom we meet on his 26th birthday, in the full throes of his QLC (quarter-life crisis). The Sculptor, Scott McCloud’s return from comics theory to narrative, has been greeted with something approaching the city-stopping ticker-tape welcomes once accorded to returning astronauts. However, for all its ambition and achievement, McCloud’s book soon begins to buckle under its own weight.
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