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Look ma, no Matrix Revolutions blogsmog!

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The girl behind the counter at the comics store likes my fingernails, and tells me that I have good taste for buying Paul Pope‘s THB 1.v.2.

The much-feted Australian collective Rinzen have designed this latest volume. Rinzen’s recent work has begun to soften my skepticism about them; up until recently, I found their stuff, like much overhyped Australian design, to be more a set of stock visual mannerisms (with a good PR machine). It was precisely the kind of stuff that Adam Greenfield takes to task in his A List Apart article on “genuine design versus vacuous stylism”, which identifies many problems with contemporary design superstardom, but can only offer a humourless, elistist functionalism in its place. (And hey, I like Nigo!) In any case, Rinzen are growing on me.