Here are two more reviews of Vortex with contrasting perspectives.

Andy Oliver wrote Vortex up on Broken Frontier yesterday:

This is a comic of contrasts. It’s oblique yet accessible, organic but simultaneously artificial, crude yet still complex. You don’t so much read Vortex as interact with it, forming your own interpretation of the merging, metamorphosing black and white visuals that flow between its covers.

Nudes Reading Minicomics (NSFW) originally posted his review in February but I didn’t find it until recently. He wanted to like it (and supported the Kickstarter, thanks for that!) but didn’t, interestingly for what Andy Oliver liked.

Cardini is proving his skills as an artist for sure. Whereas in the fiction he doesn’t plot out the universe, the rules, the form so much we see him really putting serious boundaries on how he’s gonna craft these pages and represent them. The method is very impressive and his skills as a draftsman are obvious, its just that by about halfway through I was really wishing the drawings were done in ink on notebook paper, that they were just as organic and nasty and as splotchy as the characters they are trying to represent. Its an uneasy hi fi/lo fi balance being sought by an artist who is obviously much smarter than the work he is creating.