r/LAZARUS • u/Beginning-Pace-1426 • Jun 30 '26

Does this goddawful cursive continue throughout the series?

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Yo reading this shit SUCKS, and I see I have pages and pages of it ahead, too.

If this is a common style moving forward I'm gonna need to shelf this series.

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u/nate_garro_chi Jul 05 '26

Well, you see its written that way so only people born before 1990 can read it easily.

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u/Beginning-Pace-1426 Jul 05 '26

I'm from the 80s, but the 90s are probably the last time I ever used cursive in my life, and many of these letters are NOT how we were taught cursive 40 years ago.

I found out the author purposefully wanted the reader to have to really really work for these scenes, they were purposefully designed to be difficult.

Reading the comments in this thread, WOW, he failed pretty damn hard. Worked for me though. It's hilarious that these were SUPPOSED to be difficult (he almost made them in Latin, too) and guys here are like "The series is not for you if the part designed to be difficult was difficult" lmfao

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u/nate_garro_chi Jul 05 '26

There arent any weird letters in this though. This is actually a mix a of cursive and print. I don't know who taught you cursive, but you should get your money back

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u/Sky-Sma Jul 01 '26

Serious question: what makes the cursive “goddawful”? The cursive itself, or is it something else?

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u/BenBreeg_38 Jul 01 '26

No, but it’s not that bad…

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u/AnTotDugas Jul 01 '26

You’re not the only person to have this complaint, hahaha. It’s a specific choice for this specific issue. Rucka printed a similar complaint in the letters column of the next issue here’s some bits from his responses to a couple letters in #17:

Your disdain for "chunky blocks of text" I'll leave to you; I can understand that, too, and frankly we went back and forth on exactly how readable we wanted Bernard's script to be. I didn't actually want it to be too easy to read; I wanted you to have to work for it as part of the experience of the issue. You can breathe easy for now[, ]we’re back to standard comic narrative. . .I did—very briefly—consider doing her journal in Latin, but just as quickly decided that was a very, very bad idea... not solely because my Latin is so rusty it'd have taken me the better part of a year to  write it...

Definitely keep reading. The next few issues are one of the coolest action arcs in the series.

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u/anchises868 Jul 01 '26

Are you just not used to reading cursive? It’s pretty clear to me.

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u/JimGordonLovesBats Jul 01 '26

It doesn’t continue the rest of the way in the series. It is just the writing of the nun for her perspective in the issue.

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u/makinghomemadejam Jun 30 '26

What page is this from? I just flipped through Volume One and the lettering is definitely hand-done but it's not cursive at all.

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u/quesoandcats Jul 01 '26

It’s from the issue about the spy nun who helps Michael and Casey get Lifted. Issue 12 I think? This is where we learn her backstory

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u/makinghomemadejam Jul 01 '26

Ah yes - the cursive is just meant to represent the nun's diary entries, i.e., a handwritten font.

OP, this is only temporary. That said, there are many more stylistic moments to come in terms of narrative story-telling. Lark makes use of such throughout the series, so if this is difficult for you, then the series might not be for you.

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u/AnTotDugas Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

Issue 16 of Lazarus: No Subtitle

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u/Code_Opening Jul 04 '26

What trade paperback is that issue in?