Encouraging my long held belief that doctors are the worst

I struggled with how to rate this. It's good. Doctors can bring folks back from the dead, but often they prefer their afterlives and the happiness they create in their own minds. The doctors' own struggle in life and ethics is central. Themes of life and death, isolation and happiness, and the emotional impact of others on our lives are all explored in one slim graphic novel. That said, I didn't enjoy reading it nor is it groundbreaking. Too short to explore all these themes, it feels half-empty...

Doctors is a story about some rich people who are ready to spend their money on a new technology developed by the Brooklyn doctors that lets them to come back from death and they can manage their resources in this afterlife. This book loosely and yet strongly reminded my of Inception and Eternal Sunshine with a Spotless Mind movies.It was thrilling to get confused in the opening pages, when I didn't know what was happening. In a short way, It has technology, history, emotions, urgency, madness,

Really liked this one, and story-wise, I thought this is one of Shaw's most thought-provoking books. In fact, the sophistication of the premise contrasts, in some ways, with the "simpleness" of the art. In Doctors, Shaw is also using colors in ways he did last year with New School. I'll have to go back through the book and see if there is a pattern to his use of certain colors. There's definitely reasons behind certain color shifts or changes.9/4/2016 - Reread in preparation for my interview wit...

What is it that awaits us after death? In his graphic novel, Doctors, artist/writer Dash Shaw creates a world in which each afterlife is unique, generated from one’s own memories with assistance from a newly-invented medical device, the Charon.Throughout Doctors, Shaw showcases skillful storytelling. The world he creates is inventive and fascinating. From the beginning, he successfully pulls in the reader with the story’s sense of mystery. One quickly wonders what is real as the initial central

"We'll all dissipate, we'll all be nothing and everything." -Doctors One of my favorite things about reading any Dash book is the color play. Somehow, someway, he always manages to create the feeling of each page with bright vibrant colors that scream their rage with every image. The art is always refreshing and I love the 1980's color pop happening all through out Doctors. It's rememisant of the lipstick paintings my aunt used to have on her walls when I was a kid. Doctors has some Artifical In...

I haven't liked much of Shaw's truly experimental work, but this one, maybe the most conventional narrative structure I've read from him so far, is also maybe my favorite of his thus far, (which may say something about my own need for narrative from time to time). This is a part sci-fi tale about a future where we can bring back the dead, even briefly, and a fictional philosophical reflection on the afterlife, and life/death itself.Charon is a device that allows the dead to return to life for aw...

Besides a few clichés, this is a wonderful tale of the New Bleak. The New Bleak being twenty-first century existential nihilism.

I'm nearly rendered speechless—this was a truly riveting read 👌 I'm happy to say that Dash Shaw hasn't failed me yet 🙌 What I find intriguing about Doctors, aside from its exploration on the meaning and consequences of an afterlife, are the tragic subplots of the three parents involved: Bell, Dr. Cho, and Clark Gomez. All three have brushed aside their respective children due to unfortunate circumstances in the past, which resulted in me detesting them (at least initially). Bell resented her dau...

A very creepy and atmospheric adult graphic novel with illustrations that lend to the feeling of being frozen in time, almost as if you're looking into a diorama. A woman begins living her life again for the first time since her husband's death when she goes for a run one day and meets a man who has slipped and fallen at the pool. They strike up a love affair, and she is blissfully happy. Except none of it is real. She is living in her after life, and her daughter is determined to pull her back

oh god what if i'm dead right now

The story is not bad but could have been explained better. The way it is drawn, on pages of various colours, makes it a bit hard to read. In general, it's not bad, but not great either.

A small group of rogue doctors have invented a machine that brings the newly deceased back to the world of the living. Except sometimes the dead don’t wanna come back… and what the docs are doing isn’t technically legal or at all moral anyway…! I kinda liked Dash Shaw’s Doctors but it definitely had its flaws. The explanation for why the machine exists - Charon, like the ferryman from Greek mythology who took souls of the newly deceased across the river Styx - is pretty feeble: to bring the rich...

This is a fun and strange book that actually offers some rich philosophical consideration, … but it clearly shows less effort on the visual side, as other works by this writer/artist.

This is a premise that has always fascinated me. I'm surprised we don't see it done more often. The premise is that we don't know much about the external world; we don't know if we can trust our senses. In this case a woman, unbeknownst to her, dies but continues her life in her own consciousness. This all happens while she's still on the operating table with doctors trying to revive her. After she's unsure what reality really is. The fake existence she created unconsciously was better than her

Unfortunately this story didn't appeal to me. While the premise was interesting, I personally didn't grasp any meaning that made witnessing the included morbid events worthwhile. Maybe that's the whole point, but these days I try not to abide by overly pessimistic attitudes towards any stage of life.My one compliment is that the plot was presented much more clearly that I expected it to be. Within the first few scenes it became easy to follow, which I did appreciate.

Loads of expressive, minimal, fluid lines. A story that goes creepy, cold, and resolves in a shrug with the faintest air of hope.

Doctors takes a very interesting idea and looks at the moral implications of its execution. The idea is, as you die, your mind makes a heaven for you, it feels like it lasts years, but in reality it only lasts minutes. Dr. Cho has created a machine that let’s one of his team members take the guise of the nearly departed’s kin and talks them into coming back into reality. This is primarily done for the sake of determining the provisions of a will.The book follows a specific case and the reader is...

I’m really digging this guy’s work.This is sci-fi. Nifty concepts explored both philosophically and practically. The author takes a “what if?” to its lengths another author that does this well is Junji Ito. It is a tiny bit disorienting at first, but it is because we’re still learning to suspend disbelief. Once that happens, the story is very paranoid. Had me a little nervous myself.As with the other work I have read by this author, it gets bleak. But it’s my jam, so I’m here for this shit 🕺🏻

Interesting concept, beautiful artwork, but the story was a little thin.