New review for an old mini, this time Deep Girl #2 by Ariel Bordeaux. If you have a calendar by your desk, mark April 22nd and put an “Optical Sloth” by it. Things around here are going to start to change on that day, barring some major calamity. Details will be forthcoming, but yes, this does have to do with that comics rental project I keep talking about…
Update for 3/23/10
March 23, 2010
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Update for 3/22/10
March 22, 2010Sorry, I’ve been out of town looking for places to live. The good news is that I found one and will be moving in a couple of weeks. The bad news is that I’ll be moving soon, so there may be more days without reviews and other disruptions. As always, I’ll try to keep that sort of thing to a minimum. New review today for a new mini, Was That Supposed To Be Funny by Lauren Barnett.
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Update for 3/17/10
March 17, 2010New review for an old mini, Life of a Cartoon Artiste #1 by Colin Upton. Sorry about the reruns lately (my term for when I review an artist again before their previous review has left the front page), but I grabbed a stack of these things before I moved and am working my way through them. That and as I’m heading out to look at apartments I wanted to load some of these reviews up for the week, so if you have sent anything recently I’ll get right to it when I get back…
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Update for 3/16/10
March 16, 2010New review for another old mini, Ramadan by Tom Hart. I still have plenty of these old minis laying around, in case you were curious, so they’ll keep appearing here until I get a pile of new minis either through the mail or at SPACE next month (last weekend of April, mark your calendars).
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Hart, Tom – The Ditch The River The Sea The Snake
March 16, 2010
The Ditch The River The Sea The Snake
The cavalcade of reviews for ancient (at least you could call it ancient in a culture with no attention span) mini comics continues, as I was appalled to notice that there were no minis at all from Tom on this site, just graphic novels. And it looks like the man never did put all of these into one collection, because he very clearly hates the people who enjoy his work. That’s my theory, anyway. Another one is that as most mini comics folks seem to hate their older work, maybe he just doesn’t want any of this older stuff seeing the light of day. Well, too bad! This particular issue is a 24 hour comic (if memory serves, and the fact that there’s only a single date on the back cover (5/5/96)seems to back me up) and, well, it doesn’t look all that great. Hey, that’s what 24 hour comics are! The story is fairly simple: there’s an old man who digs a ditch for his town, as they need water. He goes off to complete a ritual that will allow him to fill this ditch with water, but when he leaves his brother takes over the town and starts making demands. When the old man comes back with an immensely bloated snake (as he’s full of the sea), his brother and the hungry townspeople see a giant pile of food instead and attack. Tom manages to put a pretty decent moral at the end of the story, as one of his main skills was being able to make the reader think about any number of things. I doubt if you can find this anywhere (my copy is from Spit and a Half, John Porcellino’s old distro), but all of his old books are worth picking up if you do see them. $1.50
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Update for 3/15/10
March 15, 2010New review for another old mini, Jape #4 by Sean Bieri. To everybody out there who would like their new comic reviewed: there is currently no waiting. I’m still living out of boxes, sure, but the postal system does still work just fine and I will get your comics if you send them. Just sayin’…
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Update for 3/14/10
March 14, 2010New review for another old mini, this time Narcolepsy Dreams #4 by Jaime Crespo, who actually has a working website with new comics for sale, in case you thought all these old reviews were completely pointless. Why a review Sunday evening? I just finished up a couple of big projects, so why not? All background stuff, so probably not anything you guys will notice. That work is coming later…
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Update for 3/12/10
March 12, 2010New review for an old mini: King Cat Classix #2 by John Porcellino. Still looking for new comics to review, still happy to go back and read the old ones again.
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Update for 3/11/10
March 11, 2010New review for another old mini, this time The Wonderful Year #2 by Rebecca Taylor. Sorry about the missed update yesterday, but I am working on random things for the rental project (like weighing comics, which will be vital once the rental project gets going), so it’s not like I’m a total slacker or anything.
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Update for 3/9/10
March 9, 2010New review for The Signifiers by Michael Neno, in which I’m reminded that I wish Micheal put out comics on a more regular basis, as I seem to always enjoy them. Um, spoiler alert, and this is a brand new comic if that wasn’t completely clear.
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Update for 3/8/10
March 8, 2010New review for a new book: The Complete Ouija Interviews by Sarah Becan. About time this series got the “graphic novel” treatment…
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Update for 3/6/10
March 6, 2010New review for one more old comic, this time Famous Bus Rides #1 by Colin Upton. I’m going to try and find some new minis this weekend, but I’m heading to Champaign and the pickings are always a little slim in that area. Wish me luck…
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Update for 3/5/10
March 5, 2010New review for The Most Powerful Gate by Tom Hart, a 24 hour comic from 15 years ago.
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Update for 3/4/10
March 4, 2010New review for another old mini, The Magic Whistle #2 (mini comics edition) from Sam Henderson. Ah, memory lane. I am quite possibly spending a bit too much time there lately, but what with the moves and a lack of new comics, there are certainly worse places to be.
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Update for 3/3/10
March 3, 2010New review for a book that’s available in the online store:Syndication, edited by Nik Havert. Or at least put out by him, that part isn’t entirely clear. This is another one of those books that should have been in the store ages ago, but either never made it in or was somehow erased during one of the site upgrades. I’m going with the second option, because otherwise I would have to consider myself a complete moron for missing this one for so long…
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Tinder, Jeremy – Black Ghost Apple Factory
March 2, 2010
If there’s one downside to doing this website, it’s that it makes me a bit too passive in finding comics for myself. Generally speaking (or at least before I started doing reviews every single day), I’m lucky to just keep up with all the stuff I get through the mail and at cons, so I don’t go out and find work from people I’ve been hearing about through the years. Jeremy is one of those people who slipped through the cracks for ages, and it’s a damned shame, as this book (collecting his minis from 2004-2006) is brilliant. This is a collection of short pieces, and there isn’t a weak one in the bunch. It starts with the title story, a hopeful love story as well as an instructional tale about how apples are made. Following this is a story about an asshole robot (that’s just how he was programmed) and the heart of the book: It’s Spring, And Jeremy Tinder Is Secretly In Love With You. Everybody who has ever had a crush or who loves everybody a bit too much can relate, as Jeremy honestly lays out his feelings for one woman in particular (even though he freely admits to having feelings for several), describes how it’s really not a creepy thing that he thinks about her all the time, lists her options and begs her to be gentle with his heart and just be honest. Honestly, the whole book could have ended there and I would be floating on air, but wait, there’s more! Jeremy (who, from the way he draws himself, apparently looks like Gilligan) wakes a bear up from his hibernation, attempts to introduce it into the ways of society, and meets a gruesome end. Um, spoiler alert! Then there’s a shortie about a rabbit who seems to have a remarkably fulfilling life, but wishes only for sleep so he can dream about crying. Next there’s the story of a kitty who gets a brutal education in the meaning of the term “getting fixed”. Finally there’s the seemingly heartwarming tale of an elephant and a girl having a picnic and spending the night together outdoors. Like I said, this is brilliant all the way through, and now I’m going to have to go back and get whatever I missed from this guy. $5
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Update for 3/2/10
March 2, 2010New review for an almost new comic (as opposed to all the old minis I’ve been posting lately), Robot 13 #1 by Thomas Hall & Daniel Bradford.
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Update for 3/1/10
March 1, 2010Sorry about the weekend absence, I had a nasty virus on my computer and finally got rid of it only to discover another one that I can’t get rid of. Ah, the joys of owning a computer. New review today for an old but wonderful mini comic, Double Cross #15 by Tony Consiglio.
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Update for 2/25/10
February 25, 2010New review for yet another old mini (1998 this time), James Kochalka Superstar #11. For you kids out there who don’t know, that was the name of the mini James Kochalka did for years before he went to all graphic novels all the time. Or I missed a step, that’s entirely possible.
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Update for 2/24/10
February 24, 2010New review for another oldie, coincidentally also from 1994: Boom Boom #4 by Dave Lasky.
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