Personal Effects

This graphic novel has a different way of expressing the progression of scenes. Hutchins allows the reader to fully experience Zach's journey to figure out his family history and Grace's case on a more intimate level. While reading this novel, the set of clues in the front of the book and the series of online reference pages/ google searches act as a multimedia tool to induce creative thinking. Such a unique set of clues and facts put the reader in a detective mind frame which make the book hard to put down. The aspect of adding faces to certain characters, voice mails to cell phones, Google Map locations to places and various documents to back up this mystery aids a different way of thinking. Hutchins puts images in one's head and uses ideas he thinks become very useful and/or interesting.However now, in relation to common imagination and figurative interpretations,the reader has the option of thinking exactly as the author intended.