Arpad Okay, The Beat:
“Abedifard has a complex art style I find quite compelling. There’s a flat art, muralist simplicity to the forms and color compositions. But everywhere is a dusting of texture, sprinkled blackness like printer toner blown across the page. Guli and Anar show the wear of the world different from the other on-paper aspects of the comic. There’s a sketchbook tendency toward little lines being left in that give gestures and feelings more character. Lots of sweaty meltings. Overall there is a creative freedom and doodle experimentation in the art that comes out in weird, fabulous spurts. The imagery itself is chaotic. The things depicted can turn suddenly and inexplicably messed up, but really there are no rules anywhere.
That said, it is also a tightly constructed, immaculately measured creation. The color schemes for each comic push the mood into giallo aesthetics territory. Their sequence plays each story against the palette that preceded it. Abedifard and Silver Sprocket have put together a book that is very satisfyingly produced, one where the power of the stylized art is inseparable from the impact the object makes on whoever holds it. A misstep in storytelling takes you out of the moment; Pomegranate makes you conscious of the moment in a way that elevates the story.”
Read the full review on The Beat‘s website here!
