Arpad Okay, Doom Rocket:
“Despite the highly stylized coloring, it’s natural to lose oneself in the imagery. The portrait is just as much of the moment as it is the subject, and so the character of the scene is familiar, even if it’s set in shades of blood orange and burgundy. Unlike most comics, you don’t have to move forward for the story to deepen. The time you put into a page yields more details.
Diving into tiny details instead of focusing on the overall image becomes an immersion in the scene’s world. Where the mirror she is looking into sits, what is sitting around it, what is on the wall behind it—it is less like seeing it and more like being there, or like when you’re reading prose. I don’t know from where Goux drew inspiration for these scenes, where she was or what she saw, but you can feel Rituals crackle with the energy she captures, elegant and inelegant and housed in the same sacred space.”
Read the full review on Doom Rocket’s website here!
