Piece Goods
Who likes their mini comics violent and random? How about also in color (mostly)? Hey, you’re in luck! This one has a few pieces that are single page illustrations (that’s you’re better off trying to interpret on your own) and a few short stories that mostly just peter out. Those stories include a creepy skeleton dude in red scattering stars (or jacks, or whatever you think they might be), the adventures of a rat trying to calm a baby, how the author would trace rap album covers as a kid and the general reaction he got from his peers, a couple of strips showing the poetic memories of a murderous lunatic, angry driving (or a race) and the inevitable result, letting a crazy person into the house, and the joy of finding out that your house is covered with snow, giving you time to go through boxes of old personal letters and playing out all kinds of fantasies in your head. Most of these stories are open to interpretation and I almost certainly got a few of them wrong, but hey, that’s the fun of reviewing silent comics! It’s a bit of a mixed bag overall, but there’s enough here to make it worth a look.
