April 22, 2010
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Man Man And Friends #1
Any of you comics folks out there who are convinced that what you’re doing is as minimalistic as it gets, please take note of Gareth Brookes. In this comic you will find a series of brief conversations and/or jokes, usually between Man Man and himself, Man Man and Woman Woman, or an electric plug with either itself or the wall socket. There are no backgrounds, no facial expressions (or, conversely, faces), and very little at all outside of the basic lines necessary to make objects. Luckily that’s not a bad thing in this case, as pretty much the whole thing is funny. There’s something in here for everybody, whether it’s the secret shame of making fun of a fat lady to impress your friends, trying to reach that magical “drunk enough to have sex but not so drunk that he/she’ll get sick all over the place” threshold with a date, showing no fear to a dog, or shattering the dream of being a pornstar. Gareth sent me a hefty pile of comics with this so my opinion will become more informed over time, but for now there’s always room for one more insightful, funny guy in the world of comics. It’s from the UK so I’m not entirely sure on the price, but judging from the way the dollar is going I’d say just send him a pile of money and hope for the best. Or you could just check out that handy website linked above…
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Woman Woman #1
From the pages of Man Man and Friends, it’s Woman Woman in her own series! For those of you who enjoyed Gareth’s depiction of unsightly male behavior, you’ll be happy to know that he has an equally keen understanding of the female mind. Or at least he seems to to another male; I’m sure the ladies will be able to find issue with some things. Gareth details the ongoing sage of Woman Woman telling her troubles to her gay hairdresser (who seems to keep most of this advice to himself), the death of chivalry, an ill-advised attempt to stop guys from staring at her, a battle of naming rights for the new dog, the awkwardness of an unsuccessful one night stand, getting dolled up so much that it leads guys to believe that they have no chance, getting hit on by a repairman, and trying to compete with a woman who is always surrounded by guys. Gareth has proven conclusively with his comics that you don’t need a thing besides stick figures to have a hilarious comic, as damned near everything I’ve seen from the guy has made me laugh out loud at least a few times. I have no idea on the pricing of any of these, but a good strategy would be to send the man a pile of money and see what happens. Oh, and request a few comics, of course.
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Mediocralypse
Hallelujah, it’s a Gareth Brookes that somehow ended up at the bottom of a pile of already reviewed comics! I’ve been wondering what his non-Man Man books were like, and I feel informed enough now to be able to say: still funny. This is a mish-mash of images and concepts, not a straight collection of random stick figures and granted, the whole thing isn’t perfect, but it’s pretty damned good. Subjects in here include the rude sounding countries of Europe, boring animals, bad jokes by small children, a piece of art explained for the novice, a delightful story found in a used book (written by hand, or just made up completely by Gareth, it’s still delightful), boring dreams, and a tiny (literally) history of the universe. More than enough funny here to keep even the jaded happy, pick this up along with a few Man Man comics if you need a laugh from something that even makes you think a little bit.
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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The Manly Boys Annual (with Steven Tillotson)
Ladies, leave the room for this one. Granted, you could probably read this and get quite a few laughs out of it, but this is really for the guys who read Boys Life (or the U.K. equivalent) when they were growing up.  From that fantastic front cover to the fake ads in the middle all the way to the airplanes on the back cover, this thing rings all kinds of memory bells for me. The fact that it’s often hilarious doesn’t hurt a bit. Some of this, frankly, will be lost on the American audience, but there’s more than enough to make up for it. Case in point: the introduction by Major General Sir Henry George Gordon Neville Balfour II.  From there you go to a poem about Englishmen (and I, never a fan of poems, think this is the weak part of the comic), a word search (that actually looks legit), a fake ad trying to get young boys to enlist, a comic about a young boy who accidentally kills a tramp, a fake ad proclaiming that “Self-Touching is Bad!”, how to skin a rabbit narrated by… Phillip the Rabbit (one of the creepier/funnier things in the book), a comic about fishing and the language that fishermen use with their kids, how to tattoo yourself, a story that answers the question “What the devil do women want?” (“attack a fellow” being something that is always a good idea), a fake ad about how to hypnotize women (a requirement in these magazines as a kid), a maze guarded by Chinamen, a text piece about an escape from a jungle (with much more going on at home), and an A to Z of useless knowledge. There are also the Stupid Boy! strips that punctuate the comic, always ending the same way and yet somehow always funny, and a vision of your future involving your head being grafted onto a giant robot body.  In short (although it’s too late for that), this comic is loaded. You’ve already seen plenty of Gareth’s work on this site, and if you ‘ve enjoyed it chances are you’ve clicked through and read even more of his work.  This, as a whole, ranks right up there among his best. No price, but it’s probably somewhere in the neighborhood of $5.
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Can I Borrow Your Toilet?
Chances are that you’ve never wondered what goes on at a cardboard box factory. Actually, it would probably be called a recycling plant, as they smash cardboard boxes into little cubes and send them out, but the point remains the same. Gareth, with his uncanny ability to turn everything comics-related he touches into gold, manages to make a completely engaging story out of it. The story begins with Gareth taking in his surroundings, improvising for some breakfast (unless you think porridge in a stale ice cream cone is normal), and avoiding a conversation about football on the way to work. Once he gets there we need a list of the people he works with, and he doesn’t disappoint, telling us the stories of his three main workmates: Ticking Time Bomb Tom, Sleepy Roberto and Frightened John. From here Gareth also mentions other regulars that show up, the daily rituals that come from every mundane job in the world (like the daily eating contest, always involving the same people, food and winner, who always uses the same technique) and the daily appearance of the one woman who always walked by the factory at the same time of day. She was a plain woman, but most of the people in the factory had fallen in love with her anyway. It’s a thoroughly engaging “day in the life” type of story, as Gareth proves once again that he can make anything entertaining. The sample isn’t really representative of the style of the comic, as mostly it’s text on the left side and images on the right, but hey, this is a comics website after all, so I had to pick one that fit the “regular” comics standards. No price on this hefty thing, I’m guessing it’s around $5 US. And if you haven’t seen the rest of this page, you can’t move along without at least looking at Man Man…
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Publish You (edited by Gareth Brookes, Jimi Gherkin, Peter Lally & Saban Kazim) Website
If anybody out there is curious about the current state of small press comics in the UK (and shame on you if you’re not), this is as good a place to start as any. Gareth is one of many people involved in putting this thing together, but it goes up on his page because… well, I don’t have a particularly good reason. Mostly it’s just to draw attention to his comics one more time, as they are one of the genuinely good things in this world. So how about this anthology? It’s in color (except for the pieces that stuck with black and white), the pages are numbered and there’s a solid table of contents, so there goes any chance I had of bitching about the production values. This book is right around 80 pages but it feels longer than that. I believe that’s a compliment. Stories in here include the tale of angry freakish neighbors by Steve Tilotson, some of the lies we’ve always been told by Gareth, Edd Baldry finding out that walking to work in the snow is no better than riding a bike, Mickey Lam cramming the story of Falun Gong in China today into two pages, Zarina Liew with an adorable piece about mime speed dating, cheerful suicide by Enrico Ariis, Scott Jason Smith deals with old poisoned candy, Saban Kazim lays out the relentless side of peer pressure, Sina Shamsavari gets into the awkwardness of running into an ex long after the breakup (and what to do if they “don’t recognize you”), and Richard Cowdry proves that bringing up comics in conversation with the opposite sex doesn’t always result in them running off in the opposite direction. As always, I’m skipping plenty of stuff in this book that should probably be mentioned, but that’s where you come in. If you’re as curious as you should be you’ll check out that website, and if you’re even more curious you’ll just go ahead and buy the damned thing. This, of course, will mean that I’ve done my job, such as it is. The price is in that funny foreign currency that’s actually worth more than “real” money these days (as American dollars are powered by our imagination at this point) so let’s say… $13?
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Askari Hodari #3
Another one of the many completely random things I picked up at SPACE. This one is about a man (or maybe a team of men? Anyway, this one only dealt with one man) who are like a local watch, but with ninja powers and better body armor than anyone has ever seen. If that sounds a bit silly, well, it depends on how it’s done, doesn’t it? You have to either take something like this ultra-seriously, or you have to poke fun at it while you’re doing it. Taking it ultra-seriously only works if there isn’t anything about it that you could make fun of, and that’s not true of much of anything in my world. Still, this is done pretty well for what it is, and I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to see this guy become a pretty major name in gritty/realistic comics in the next few years. That being said, there’s nothing in here that’s too incredibly graphic, which is a nice change of pace. Way too many of these books try to sell you with different body parts being cut up in all kinds of ways, and Glenn seems to be going for story first and shock value second. Some of the dialogue is kind of dopey and I have no idea how the main character can kill so many people without them fighting back hardly at all, but I didn’t get the first two issues. I’m sure it was either explained there or it’ll be explained at some point in the future. All in all, not a great book but a fun read, worth a look if you’re in an action comics kind of mood. Check out his website for ordering info or just to find out more about the comic. I just went there to see if the link worked and found out all kinds of stuff about the comic that was only hinted at in the issue I read.
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Askari Hodari #2
OK, this one doesn’t do much to explain things that I wasn’t clear on (I’m doing this review on 4/23/03, about a year after I got #3), but it does make me like the series a bit more. It’s mostly action, sure, but at least it’s a fun book. I still barely have any idea of what’s going on in the big picture (guess I need to get the first issue from him for that), but it looks good. The only real thing I can complain about is that I don’t like typed lettering. Just seems to me that if you’re willing to spend a couple of days or longer on a page you could spend a few hours to make the lettering look good, and I have terrible handwriting. Still, word at SPACE was that Glenn got some kind of movie deal, so he might be done with comics anyway. It’s worth checking out for the mayhem value involved, although if you don’t like action books it’s probably not for you. Contact info is down yonder…
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Super #3 Now Available! $3
Another issue of Super means more Swag, and this one has a couple of stickers and my favorite button of the bunch, a picture of the inside cover (not scanned, sorry) showing a man shouting out his love. This is also his longest comic yet, and it deals with things like the death of his hamster, a gunfight, beauty, the man he killed, smoking, and eating in a time of war. Not sure why this is so much more expensive than the other issues (these must be expensive to produce, maybe he was just undercharging on the other issues), but it’s still a gorgeous book and very handy for people who love buttons and stickers. $8
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April 22, 2010
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Super #2 Now Available! $3
If you’re the type of person who likes swag with your comics (meaning buttons and stickers), Kevin is your man. Once again the actual comic is difficult to describe, as it’s mostly a series of disconnected images. The main story, or at least the longest coherent piece in here, deals with the fact that Kevin is unable to turn off Dawson’s Creek. Past that you have various puns and disturbing images dealing with video games, space, pizza, the good old USA, and a super punch battle. Again, not the best thing in the world if you demand a linear story in your comics, but visually it’s damned impressive.
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Snapshot #5
Let me start this off by saying that Jeff LeVine remains one of the very few comic heroes of mine. Oh sure, I have a respect for a whole bunch of people, and I like the work of probably hundreds of artists. It’s not the same as somebody being a hero. He is for one reason: Destroy All Comics. The greatest magazine (I guess you could call it a zine, but it deserves a bigger name than that) about comics ever, I looked forward to this thing coming out more than most comics. Interviews with the small press greats, comics, rants, reviews, all done with an unmistakable love of comics. It’s the model that I’m setting up this page to be, and I know I have a long way to go before that’ll ever happen. After he stopped doing D.A.C., I lost track of what he was up to for a while. He also did the incredible No Hope for Slave Labor graphics for a few years, followed by Lust For Life for a few issues. They were both favorites of mine and I couldn’t wait for each issue to come out, but apparently I was in the minority because he either stopped doing it or it was cancelled and he fell off the radar. I should have known that he wouldn’t stop doing comics altogether and I found the latest work of his in the Paper Radio catalog (PO Box 254 Allston, MA 02134, send a couple of stamps and ask for a catalog), called Snapshot.
Snapshot #5 (and all of the issues that I’ve seen) isn’t really a mini comic, at least not strictly speaking. I don’t know what you’d call it though. Zine, maybe? Well, whatever it is, there’s nothing else like it that I know of. It’s part comics, part Jeff writing either about something that had happened to him at the time or earlier in the day, and part photographs. It’s mostly talk about his job, not knowing where he wants to be in the world or what would finally make him happy, and about his emotional distance from most of his family (except his brother). A problem I’ve had in a lot of these reviews is that I don’t want to give too much of anything away. There’s a fine line, I know that, but a lot of the joy that I get out of mini comics is the joy of discovering them. Not necessarily being the first person that I know to hear about them, just the joy of reading them without really knowing what to expect. With Snapshot, I could tell you what he says in every fucking essay in this book and you know what? It would be still be amazing. This is pure poetry and you’re only cheating yourself by not buying it. Shame on you! Here’s a little sample of what you’re missing.
Jeff’s home page
Jeff e-mailed me and told me that all the issues for this series are sold out. He has #1-4 up on his website, so I guess you’ll just have to live with that for now. He also said that he plans to have everything he’s ever done up on his site eventually, so you’ll be able to get as many samples of his work as you should need to convince you to buy his stuff.
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Super #1 Now Available! $3
You may be thinking that that’s an awful lot of samples for two comics, and that’s true, it usually would be. Kevin, however, is not satisfied with a simple mini and makes these both fun packs o’ goodies. This first issue is in a little sleeve (pictured first) with two tiny minis inside, not to mention a couple of stickers and buttons. The automatically gets a high grade on my nonexistent grading scale for making these automatically impressive before you even open the damned things. Once you get to the actual comic, there’s no linear story to speak of, just a series of visual explosions. Topics briefly touched on here include ninjas, politics, drunks, regrets, listening, and hope. I would almost compare this to a sketchbook if the images weren’t so complex and fully realized. It’s not the kind of comics you see every day, that’s for sure, and well worth a look to people who are able to read comics that don’t necessarily go from a point A to a point B. $3
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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The Titusville Geek Now Available! $3
I suppose context is important in reviews. If I were judging this book just from the perspective of any old mini comic, I’d say that it was an enjoyable enough little story. Judging it from the perspective of so many of his other minis, which are so often an absolute blast, I’d have to say I was a little let down. This is a campfire story told to a bunch of little kids about the old geeks in the circus. If you’re not aware of what they are, they were usually drunks who were willing to do anything for their booze, and they spent their time in a dingy cage, surrounded by their own filth, biting the heads off chickens and generally behaving like an animal. Pat seems to think these people were mostly stupid or actually retarded, which isn’t something I’ve heard to explain the geeks, but it’s not like I’m an expert on the subject (insert “Yeah, but you’re geeky enough to run a comics website!” joke here). It has its moments, to be sure, like when the geek sets off the town to destroy the circus by biting the head off a small child, but overall it just isn’t as good as some of his other books. Not the harshest criticism in the world, I know, but it’s the best I can do. My advice is to check out many of his other fine works displayed on this page and then circle back to this if that makes you love his work, which I would think it would have to if you have a sense of humor at all.
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Obsessive Crush
Jealous killer robots! Mysterious potions! Open mic night! All these horrors and more… ahem, sorry, I got carried away. This is a cute story about a man who’s trying to be cooler with the ladies and ends up drinking a potion. When he does, he changes into a slimy lounge lizard uncontrollably, often at awkward times. Meanwhile, he meets a girl who sings at a coffee shop and decides that he likes her, but he also has to contend with his jealous robot, who is in love with him. Got all that? The only problem I have with this book is that at times it seems like it came out in four panel installments. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing, but the last panel often seems like a pun. Still, the whole thing holds up well as a story, and it’s, as I said cute. And funny at times, but in a pun-y sort of way. Here’s a website if you’re looking for more samples…
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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The Untold Tale of the Fighting Flag!
It helps when a book is lousy if it’s at least a 24 hour comic, as you can always ignore the mound of excellent 24 comics and blame its crappiness on the time frame. This is story of Captain Ameri…um, I mean Fighting Flag, telling his tale from his wheelchair in a retirement home to a very credulous helper. Turns out a giant figure from the heavens gave Fighting Flag the power to fight the Nazi’s, but he had to always use his powers for good. After the war this the hero slipped up on this oath a bit and had his powers taken away, until one fateful day in the retirement home… OK, so this doesn’t look that great (24 hour comics rarely do) and the story is dopey as hell, fine. This was made in 2000 when David was 20ish, so it’s not like this should be taken as a representation of his talents. He also does something called Straw Man, there’s a preview in the back of this and it looks like it could be funny. This one, however, unless you think that cover is for you, is easily skipped. You can buy his stuff on the website listed above, possibly the barest website I’ve seen, as that’s literally all you can do: buy his stuff. Or e-mail him with any questions, as I didn’t even see the e-mail listed on his website. $1
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Chiaroscuro #5
The number of quality comics that are being put out on a regular basis these days makes this site almost too easy. The point of this was to constantly find new people. and here I am stuck on the ones I already know that I like. Oh well… Anyway, this is another solid issue. It’s almost entirely set in a coffee shop, which shows off Troy’s gift for dialogue yet again. I like how this series isn’t afraid to take some time to set things up right. Unless he has no idea where he’s headed at all, then this series is going to get dull at some point. Something about this whole storyline leads me to believe that he has big things in store though, so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. I also loved the dialogue with the customer, but that’s probably just because of my time working in a coffee shop. I still think this is a solid series and I still think that people should pick this up, what more do you want from me? Contact info is way up there under #1, so send the man some cash.
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Strawman #4
OK, here’s a little “inside Optical Sloth” useless trivia. When I go to conventions and see anything that remotely catches my eye (or when people stop me while I’m wandering around to chat, or when the person at a table is friendly, or basically anything other than a jerk) I’ll look at what they have to offer and, if there are a ton of books, I’ll mention what I do, give them a business card and ask them what their favorite issue is. That way, I figure, I’ll be getting the best of their work, as it’s not like I have the cash to buy out the stock of everybody at a con. So anyway, long story longer, David picked this issue out, and I got the issue reviewed below because it was a measly buck. Naturally, in the universe in my head centered completely around me, this issue should stand alone, it should tell me everything I need to know about this Strawman character, and it should be fantastic. Well, one out of three isn’t bad. I still don’t have much of an idea who or what Strawman is, and, as such, the issue wasn’t really fantastic. OK fine, it doesn’t completely stand alone either, but it comes close enough. David explains in his intro the basis for aspects of this story, and also mentions that his art improves in later and earlier issues, as he started this one early on, got stuck, and then put out #2 and 3 of the series. This issue involves Strawman trying to help a man after his store is robbed, chasing a thieving midget, riding a bus with a lot of odd characters, and getting clobbered by said midget, causing Strawman to hallucinate. So yeah, it’s pretty disjointed, the art could be better, and I still don’t know much of anything about the big picture with this guy, but I came away intrigued and interested in seeing more, so I guess it all worked out in the end. $2.95
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Happy Town #11
It’s like a yearly ritual at SPACE for me, or at least it is when I see Justin there: I get to his table, see all these gorgeous Happy Town books… and draw a complete blank on where I’m at in the series, as in most cases I haven’t read it since the year before. Lovely! So this year it was even worse than usual, as the last issue I got before this one was #7, leaving quite a continuity gap. So how do you write a review without actually giving anything away regarding the contents? Luckily I perfected this years ago, so I can give it a shot. In here you have a botched launch, an attempted suicide, robot love, a punched Mayor, jetpacks, a robot with a gun and a blizzard. One of these days (and if I had a nickel for every time I said this I would have a whole lot of nickels) I’ll get all of these and get a solid idea of what’s going on here, but until then you’ll just have to settle for a yearly blast of incomprehensibleness. Oh, Justin did make it clear in the back of this that he has no idea how this story is going to end, and if you look at his website you can see that he has a lot of books available, not all of them having anything to do with Happy Town. Check it out, if you’re smart you’ll buy a collection of the stories (if such a thing exists yet) and get caught up, as the sheer fact that this is a great comic every time even though I have little idea of what’s going on is an excellent mark of quality…
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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The Ex Revenge Project
This goes about my “policy” of not dealing with zines (there are too many comics in the world for me to get to, nothing personal to zines (if they were a person, that is)), but this is just too good to pass up. Robin, not really sure what was going to come of it, decided to ask people for their breakup stories and compromising pictures of exes. Or, in other words, free porn. What followed was apparently a deluge of e-mails and images, all from men, all looking for Robin to spread these images as far and wide as possible in the hopes of hurting these women. So what Robin ended up doing was putting snippets (or whole e-mails) in this book, with the names and addresses removed, and with drawn representations of the images instead of the actual images to protect the people involved. If you’re looking for the better side of humanity, the one that’s willing to forgive and forget and always wishes the best for their ex, this is absolutely the wrong place to go. There’s no denying how fascinating some of these stories are though. Some guys don’t even say how they broke up (most guys, actually), they just detail the most lewd things they can think of that the girl did in bed, sometimes with pictures, and practically beg Robin to post the whole thing all over the place. I’m not going to go into the individual stories, because if you’re interested in this sort of thing in any way you’re already over at Poopsheet ordering it. Same deal with samples, as it’s text on one page and the image on the right, and that text would come out as tiny in a scan. For better or worse, it’s a unique piece of work. $3
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Planet Named Desire #8 Now Available! $2
Two really great stories in this one. The first is the tale of a young swordsman who is trying to train with the best swordsman in the land. It’s about patience and not accepting everything as it appears. The second is all pictures, about a dog and its quest to find the meaning of life. It was done extremely well, with drawn backgrounds and pictures of a whole cast of characters. Then at the end of the book you have a few full page panels which showcase just how incredible of an artist this guy is. This is a great series (from what I can tell from the issues I’ve seen, anyway), and I don’t think it gets anywhere near the attention it deserves. Yes, I would be saying that even if I wasn’t selling some copies on my website. Contact info is up there if you need more samples!
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