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In Combats, once again we find the familiar
figures of costumed, masked, expressionless characters, geometric
decors, drawing saturated with straight lines and half tones, first
published in Travaux Publics (Public Works), the author's
previous book. Here, the clash of the illustrated
panels that was brewing in the previous volume, the clash between
the text and the image, between the narration and the visuals is now
exposed and all hell breaks loose. Anything is good enough for Yokoyama:
swords, plates, knives, faucets, canons, potted plants, rockets or
books are used in the fights whose purpose or origin is difficult
to grasp. These fights, which in turn, are either a riot, an ambush,
an urban scuffle, a commando attack, a street gang war, or a simple
brawl, seem, just like the comic strips that conveys them, to come
from nowhere.
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