April 24, 2010
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Cheetah Story
All that nonsense about never judging a book by its cover aside, it does help to be impressed before opening a comic. In this case it’s not because of anything particularly impressive about the image (not that there’s anything wrong with it), but because of the fact that this is a 24 hour comic about a cheetah.  Maybe it’s only impressive to somebody like me who can’t draw their way out of that proverbial paper bag, but the thought of doing a rushed comic with all the different motions of a cheetah just sounds daunting. Kris does mention that he loved cheetahs as a kid, so maybe it was easy to him, but I was still impressed. This is, obviously, the story of a cheetah as he goes through a couple of days. He hunts, rests, and remembers a traumatic encounter with a lion. It’s nicely paced and looks much better than it has any right to, which is all that you can ask out of these 24 hour books. Kris also put an informative timeline in the back of the book (so some of these people DO take naps while making 24 hour books!) and writes a nice epilogue while clearly hanging on by a thread. What can I say, people pushing through pain always gets approval from me. Way back in the day when Martin Wagner had marathon session of answering the phone for people ordering his book Hepcats. I waited until the 72 hours was almost up just to see what he would be like. Charming and alert, as it happened. So yeah, this comic is worth checking out, don’t mind my unrelated rambles… $1
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Posted by Kevin
April 24, 2010
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Euni the Unicorn #1
Quick, set the initial impression you have of this comic from the cover into your brain. You may have a different impression if you’ve already read some comics by Kris, but if you haven’t I’m guessing that you have a totally different picture in your head. Got it? It’s wrong. Well, OK, you may be the luckiest person in the world and you managed to guess it on the first try. What do I know anyway? This is the story of a magical unicorn that crashes into the bedroom of a sick woman (this is dedicated, as you can tell from the cover, to Mary, who I’m guessing is Mrs. Lachowski).  It takes some convincing (and some genuinely hilarious dialogue), but eventually Mary sees that Euni really did come to help her get over her cold. Euni, sadly, has already used up his magic by repairing the damage he did crashing into the house. He does have one more way to get her well, and although I generally hate spoilers in this case I just can’t help it: unicorn urine. If I have to bitch about something I will say that the art was a bit sparse at times, but with material like this all you really need is the two characters and the dialogue. It’s well worth checking out, and the man is building a damn fine back selection of minis that all seem to be right around the price of this one: $1.
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Posted by Kevin
April 24, 2010
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The Constant Dilemma
Everybody has been there at one time or another. You’re sitting around, having just eaten your cupcake, or cookie, or muffin, and you’re vaguely satisfied but you wouldn’t mind another one. You notice that the person next to you hasn’t eaten their cupcake/cookie/muffin but (especially if you don’t know the person) it’s a bit tacky to just ask for their dessert. That’s as far as it’s ever gone for me, and yes, I have, on occasion, just asked for their dessert. Kris, on the other hand, takes this in another direction. He notices that the person he’s sitting next to hasn’t eaten his cupcake, but his instinct is to smash it. Why? He has no idea, but he has a hard time fighting back the urge. What would the person do, what would the other people around him do? It’s an impossible thought, but then again, why not? This is a tiny mini, so there’s not much more to it than that, but I also appreciated the alternate ending on the back cover for anybody who wasn’t satisfied with the actual ending. Um, assuming that this was in any way a true story.  Good stuff once again from Kris, and I’m sure he’s not the only person out there who can relate to wanting to smash a cupcake… $1
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April 24, 2010
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Uuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Now this is more like what I usually expect from a 24 hour comic: a jumbled mess. There have been entirely too many thoroughly planned out 24 hour comics around here lately. Kris starts off with an asshole teacher being mean to his students for about 15 pages, with most of it being funny and some of it falling flat, before deciding to chuck the whole story in disgust. At this point he turns the teacher into a zombie (before quickly tiring of that as well), then shifts the comic into the adventures of Vampire Boy (one of the students), then tosses that aside to roll the credits. It’s an object lesson in planning these things more than anything else, although it did still have more than enough funny in it to justify checking it out. Really, that cover alone was enough to get me to grab this one from my review pile, even if the zombie action was rather limited. You’ll certainly find better comics from Kris if you wander around this page a bit, but I think he may have a new winner in terms of both cover image and title. $1.50
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Posted by Kevin
April 24, 2010
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New Venus
Cheers to Kris for the scientific facts about Venus. Unless, of course, he’s just making them up, in which case jeers to Kris for making up facts about Venus! This mini tells the story of how the inhabitants of Venus, many years ago, discovered technology, overreached in a big way, doomed their planet and set off to find another one to ruin. Um, populate. They all see it coming, but for a variety of reasons none of them want to do anything about it, so the survivors set off in search of a new world. Alas, their calculations are incorrect, and they end up heading straight for a world that is already populated. This is, granted, a very thin cover-up for a comic about global warming, but I did appreciate the fact that he showed that the utterly lethal conditions on Venus could be repeated here, given enough time and effort by our industries, and given a lack of any organized push back from anyone else. If you don’t believe global warming is happening you probably won’t like this book, then again if you don’t believe global warming is happening you probably have a full day already just trying to remember to inhale and exhale in the proper order to sustain your life. It’s a good story, maybe a touch preachy, but I think the eventual destruction of the planet is a good excuse to get a little preachy, don’t you? $1
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April 24, 2010
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Kris’ For The Hell Of It Mini Comic Collection #1
This time around we’re taking a trip down memory lane for Mr. Lachowski as, even though this appears to be a collection of snippets from older comics, it’s all old enough that I haven’t seen it at all. Hey, that makes it a new comic to me, which is good enough for review purposes. The art is a little rough at times and he’s clearly matured as a writer since these strips, but they’re not without their charm. This mini includes what has to be close to the first appearance of the Mean Goat, the obnoxiousness of listening to radio stations bragging about not playing commercials…in their commercials, a photo piece about going to see The Passion of the Christ, a dream of climbing a crumbling mountain, monsters dancing, and a lone ant pondering existence gets an unpleasant (but accurate) answer from the sun. Kris clearly put this together as something to give away at conventions (the $0 price tag is a bit of a hint), and I can see it working wonderfully for that purpose. He’s done better stuff since this, sure, but it’s worth asking him for a copy if you see him at a convention, or if you order comics from him he probably wouldn’t mind tossing a copy in with the order if you ask politely. If you’re not a big fan of early work and just prefer to see the artist at his/her best, scroll around this page, you’re sure to find something you like.
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Posted by Kevin
April 24, 2010
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Gross Jam
This is exactly what you might expect from a comic with that title: a series of jam comics with some, well, gross subject matter. These aren’t meant to be actual stories so much as attempts on grossing out the reader and a good chance for the creator to go a little nuts, so it’s silly to review them as such. It is pretty gross, but most of the stories are at least mildly amusing which, I believe, is why comics were invented. OK fine, I’ll get into the content a bit. Stories in here include the birth of the antichrist as the result of an ill-advised trip to Wendy’s (that ends abruptly, but as I already mentioned that this isn’t about the stories I suppose that’s OK), a man in hell musing that he has it relatively easy (with Justin Lynch), pooing from an airship (with Justin and Mary Lachowski), a romantic walk spoiled by monkeys (with Justin), dildo fun, a jab at the censors, and tree sex. I mentioned when it was a jam, or at least when it was mentioned that it was a jam comic, for those of you who are curious. I’ll leave aside the question of why it took three people to come up with some of this stuff but hey, that’s the fun of jam comics! He has better stuff on this page if you’re just looking for a sampling of his work, but if you’re all about the gross-out this is the one for you. $1
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Posted by Kevin
April 24, 2010
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24 Hour Comic
Well, that has to be just about the laziest title for a 24 hour comic that I’ve ever seen. And, not to get all technical or anything, judging from that timeline this was only a 20 hour comic, so it’s not even an accurate title. As for the quality, Chris does say right on the cover (in case you can’t read it) “Wow, this was not the best 24 hour comic I’ve done”. Still, the man has too much talent for it to be completely awful, it just suffers from the occasional 24 hour comic disease of falling apart completely by the end. This is the story of a preacher who sticks with the craziest of the bible quotes for his sermons, losing more and more parishioners every week, until he’s eventually noticed and given a television show. Hey, look around at religious people on the teevee, this is certainly accurate. Along the way he gets asks for advice from a fellow priest who doesn’t speak up until almost the end of the book, but the advice he does give is sound. The last few pages are just Kris trying to fill up space, but there are several things I liked about this book. There was him writing “empty space” over and over again on a panel with too much empty space, the character flipping channels for a few pages and flipping past images from past comics that Kris has done, and the depiction of a sermon as the earth being smited (smoted? smitten?), two dudes kissing and Elijah saying “booga booga” to scare people. He’s done better, that’s for sure, but if you’re a fan of his work this is still worth a look. $129
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April 24, 2010
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Dork Lifestyle
Here’s another short comic from Missy. This one is collection of one page stories, about things like walking on a fortune, stealing a pen, picking things up off the ground (a favorite of mine too), wearing odd things, growing up, things she has done or never done, and a dream about a giant deer. Good stuff all around, although I’d still like to see a bigger book by her. This one is only $.50, so why not buy it? Contact info is up there!
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April 24, 2010
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This is Your Toy and I Want It
This is the story of a little hot dog in a bun toy, except that it looks more like a little pill in a bun. Whatever the case, Missy sees it at a friend’s house and decides that she has to have it, so makes a compromise where she watches the toy for a little while. Next she visits the land of the toys, but I’ve said too much already. This is a fun little book, although a bit short, but it’s only $.50 so that’s OK. I’ve been hearing about Missy for a couple of years now so it’s good to actually see a comic. I was impressed, but I get the definite impression that the hype is for the later work (this is from 1999) more than this cute book.
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April 24, 2010
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I Heart New York Now Available! $1
If you’re looking for a perfectly adorable story about New York, you’ve found it. Missy tells a brief tale of a young girl wandering through the city, taking in the sights that adults often miss. There’s a sense of wonder throughout this mini, as Missy observes the sights of Central Park (horses, squirrels, an Alice in Wonderland sculpture, and Calder’s circus) and marvels at the Empire State Building. This was made in 2000, and possibly that sense of wonder is gone by now (full disclosure: I’ve never been to New York. I know, I know). This is one of those “gateway comics” for kids though, if you’re looking to get your young ones interested in comics, or even if you’re just looking for something to feel good about for a few minutes. $1
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April 24, 2010
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Half Boy/Half Stupid (with Rowboat) Now Available! $2
You don’t go into one of Missy’s minis expecting tales of drunken misadventures (or at least I don’t, but I’ve read relatively few minis from her so far so what do I know), but that’s what you get here. Missy illustrated a collection of stories told to her by her friend Rowboat, dealing with being misunderstood, breaking in the door on an unsuspecting crush, making a fool of yourself over the phone to an ex, ending a Halloween night in a state of drunken disarray, a nigthmarish cat, a pack of wild donkeys, smoking a telephone and a perfect romantic evening that doesn’t go as planned. A pretty great pack of stories, with Missy’s art bringing the whole thing wonderfully to life. $2
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Posted by Kevin
April 24, 2010
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Hoax #5 Now Available! $2
The late 2009 reviewing of these Hoax issues continues, wildly out of order and for no good reason other than the fact that I somehow missed reviewing them all these years, and these comics frankly deserve better. This one is especially interesting in that it essentially has origin stories for other comics available in the store, or at least early attempts at those stories. There’s the story of the family from Chromosome Crossroads (namely how they got their start and how they weren’t always an interbreeding mess) and an early version of the guy from Cannibulimic, which I still contend is the best title in my store. The title itself, that is. It’s a pretty great comic too, but there’s a whole lot of competition in there. Other pieces in this issue include Nate Neal with a Mexican adventure, Ben Carrico with a text piece telling us to use cash to avoid detection, Nate Neal with Truckhead reading his fortune, Karl with a short piece (all I’ll say about it is the title: Plop N’ Scrub), Ben Carrico with another text piece (this time about his personal view of the ghetto from his apartment and the cycle that keeps them all there), Nate Neal resurrecting Bill Hicks for his take on the current state of things (and, while it was tacky to do it, he sure seems to have come up with an accurate portrayal of the guy), Karl with a short silent piece on the wonders of life (and if you’ve read even a bit of Karl’s work you know that’s sarcasm), Nate with another Truckhead piece (where he’s haunted by commercials in his dreams) and a longer piece on various conspiracy theories. There’s less variety in this issue at least in terms of the number of creators, but the pieces are stronger and you can tell they’re all really getting a handle on their various characters. It’s a shame that none of their individual series seem to have been kept up, but it’s entirely possible that I just missed them and they’re still out there chugging away. Either way this is a fun issue, and that’s a lot of comic for $2.
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Posted by Kevin
April 24, 2010
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Hoax #4 Now Available! $1.50
Just to make this clear to readers in the future: I’m reviewing this in late 2009 It was made in 2003 and I believe it was edited solely by Karl, although that’s hard to tell. I’m spelling this all out because, as a monthly regional magazine/anthology, there are going to be pieces in here that are damned near irrelevant 6 years later. For example, the center of this book is made up of an interview with Nathan Neal about his film “The Naked Eye Will Be Shot”. Good luck finding anything about that now, although it does sound interesting. Luckily comics are timeless (mostly), and there are some great ones in here. Nate Neal gets things started with a simpleton just barely taking the easy way out instead of facing nuclear war, and is this the Nathan Neal from before? He wouldn’t list his comics under Nate in here and then do the interview under Nathan, would he? That seems needlessly pretentious, if true. K. Throoper (whose art sure looks like Karl’s) is up next with a brilliant piece about drive-by religious services, and the baptism is about what you’d expect. Lydia Gregg is up next with the highlight of the issue, a story of pussy versus pussy. A man takes a woman home for the night, and she remarks on how cute his cat is before it attacks her. The rest of the night involves an escalating series of attacks from the cat, culminating in something that made me laugh out loud. As the proud owner of a cat who is also an asshole, this piece really made my day. Karl is up next with a mildly baffling piece about love and abduction, which is followed by Lydia’s sampled piece about how we’re just a pit-stop between product and feces. Lydia then put together a funny fake horoscope (and yes, it is important to note that it’s funny, because many of the fake ones are not) along with a short piece on the dangers of talking on your cell phone while on the treadmill. Finally there’s an utterly baffling piece by Karl involving a stopped bus and a hitchhiker, and it’s all capped off with a funny Halloween piece by Nate. There are also a couple of mildly paranoid rants by Ben Carrico, in case the comics weren’t enough for you. For some reason I never reviewed any of these books, but I plan on correcting that in the weeks to come. This one is worth it for the cat story alone. $1.50
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Posted by Kevin
April 24, 2010
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Hoax #3 Now Available! $1
Does it make any sense at all to review a comic made in 2002 as my first book of 2010? I’d have a hard time justifying it, if I had anybody to justify it to. Luckily it’s a dictatorship around here and I don’t like having these unreviewed comics sitting around. I reviewed #4 and 5 before #3, keeping with my usual higgledy-piggledy style, and the good news is that they worked a lot of bugs out for those two issues. The bad news is that those bugs are mostly still present here. This is a giant newspaper of a comic (in size, but there are only 12 big pages), so no samples from me. Stories in here include serenity during a plane crash, the struggle to find a clean toilet in the men’s room, the hilarity of a piano falling out of the sky and the new erotic doll series (by Karl Kressbach); the last straw in regards to men and another funny horoscope (by Lydia Gregg); and accepting the dullness of life, an alcoholic’s take on the rabbit and the hare, Truckhead’ s troubles with women and how to quit smoking (by Nate Neal). Ben Carrico has a series of text pieces as well, but those are so horribly dated that it seems unfair to even comment on them. After all, we must have all our terrorism and civil liberties problems worked out by now, right? Anyway, I prefer the later, more comic-heavy issues to this one, but your mileage may vary, or maybe you just want to see some of these artists in their early years. $1
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Posted by Kevin
April 24, 2010
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Hoax #2 Now Available! $1
My ridiculously late review of these anthologies continues, sort of in reverse order, except when it’s not. I’m here to bring chaos to the world, what can I say? This is another collection of work from mostly the same people listed below, and Karl comes right out and says in the intro that he would prefer that this book be placed in all lavatories and used for toilet paper. I thought it was a pretty solid issue, but I suppose if you’re big on recycling it could be used both ways. Stories include a do-it-yourself suicide booth by Lydia Gregg, Nate Neal’s struggle to quit smoking (as he knows full well that his death by smoking is exactly what “the man” wants), Karl’s piece on how G.W. Bush being unable to tie his shoes leads to a nationwide red alert, Karl’s other, quieter piece about riding a bus after having it be overrun by birds, a mystery author’s piece on the vicious circle of being an artist, Ben Carrico and Karl Kressbach’s strip on weeding out the bigots, Nate Neal’s anti-globalization piece, Truckhead trying to kill himself (by Nate Neal), K. Throope’s plea to walk more, and Lydia’s Umbilical -Baby for little girls. There are also the usual array of stories from Ben Carrico, dealing with how stupid everybody is for believing the lies, how Viacom owns everything, and Wal-Mart and its ruination of all small towns. Lydia also has a text piece in here dealing with the evolution of art, accompanied by a strip on her dealing honestly with criticism. Assuming that’s her, I have no idea what sort of stuff she did in art shows. Anyway it’s another solid issue, if a bit dated, and that should be fairly obvious from the cover. Still, at least these people were dealing with the political issues of the time, so many comics folk just never address (or gave a shit about) any of it. They deserve some praise for that. #1
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Posted by Kevin
April 24, 2010
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Hoax #1 Now Available! $1
(Sorry about the lack of scans, this thing is basically and unscannable by me)
Kudos to Karl and the rest of the crew for turning this into a series after this first issue, because it was lousy. Lousy in what way? Well, mostly Ben Carrico, the guy who did most of the essays in later issues. In those issues I occasionally found him thoughtful, if all kinds of paranoid, but if I had read this issue first I would have had an entirely different opinion of the guy. There are certain statements that, when I hear or read them, know that I can dismiss the opinion of the person they came from. “Glenn Beck is a thoughtful, sincere journalist”.  “Sarah Palin really did quit the governorship so she could be a better fighter for ‘the people'”. “The moon landing was a hoax”.  This came out in 2002 so I don’t know what Ben thinks about those first two, but he mentioned in two separate articles that there was “no proof” of there ever being a moon landing, and that makes anything else the guy says suspect in my mind. And this issue is the Ben Carrico showcase, as he has 5 different essays in this one. He isn’t helped by the poor layout of the issue, which chops up most of his articles and continues them on later pages for no discernible reason. I have to point out, once again, that this is from 2002 and there’s every chance in the world that he’s ashamed of all this nonsense now, eight years later, and it’s not fair of me to even bring it up at this late date. Fair enough. But as these are still available for sale (at least here), I do have to point out that you’d be better off with any of the other five issues and it would be best to skip this entirely. Oh, what about the comics? Not bad, mostly, but there also isn’t much room for them with all the essays. There’s a piece on conspiracies by Nate Neal (funny and informative, if still a bit paranoid), K. Throope has a couple of people complaining about stupid house wives and their SUV’s, Lydia Gregg has the highlight of the issue (in which she has a tv ad of a starving country offering to take fat kids off our hands), Nate Neal has a silent mess of a Truckhead strip, Karl Kressbach has an indecipherable silent mess of a two-pager, Lydia has a funny four panel strip called Culture Binge, Lydia wins again with a fake ad on the back cover for Leproclear (to help you stay attractive as you age by shedding layers of skin) and Nate Neal caps it off with famous body parts kept in pickle jars. So: a few funny comics, many many wild-eyed (although, to be fair, he was probably right about a few things) rants from Ben Carrico. It’s still only a buck, so it’s probably still worth a look if you’re a fan of Lydia’s work. Otherwise everybody else involved got a whole lot better by the later issues. $1
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Posted by Kevin
April 24, 2010
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Delusion Dispatch Now Available! $1
I’m honestly not sure if it’s fair to review this now. Today is 3/5/09, six years after GW Bush started one of the dumber wars in history, and this comic has a fair amount of strips that are from that early time period. Making fun of GW was still considered a mildly subversive thing to do (instead of something every sane person did) and it was easy to rail at the inaction of the completely indifferent population. So let’s just leave it, huh? The strips are between funny and mildly amusing, but they’re of more use as a time capsule at this point. That still leaves a fair amount of comic that isn’t quite as political to go over, so how about it? The first strip (for students of comic making only) deals with a character and his dog challenging the boundaries of the panel and failing miserably. Next up is a brief strip about a man who makes a comic to try to help starving people, but nobody reads comics. A couple of shorties follow (and I’ll leave them as a surprise so I don’t ruin absolutely everything), then a strip about a man, at the end of his rope, walking off into the distance. Very slowly. No, it didn’t do much for me. All told there’s more than enough funny stuff in here to warrant $1, and if you prefer your GW bashing a little quaint then you’re not going to want to miss this. $1
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Posted by Kevin
April 24, 2010
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Chromosome Crossroads #2 Now Available! $2
If you’re going to have a comic about incest, this is about as good a title as you could have. It’s the story of a family of a mother, brother, father, sister, and daughter, and an awful lot of those people are able to claim more than one of those titles in regards to the same family member. It’s creepy, sure, and it’s easy to lose track of who is who even with the handy introduction, but there’s a little bit of bizarre charm in the way that some of these people relate to each other. Little things like showing off local landmarks, when viewed in the larger context of what a weird world the live in, come off as surprisingly poignant. Or maybe I’m just an emotional sap today, you be the judge. Anyway, it looks good and it’s original enough to be worth a look. Send an e-mail, there’s at least one other issue of this out there for $2…
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Posted by Kevin
April 24, 2010
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Chromosome Crossroads #1 Now Available! $4
This whole “draft” business deserves a bit of an explanation. The second draft is a redrawn version of the first, with the impressive color cover that you see above. It’s a pretty noticeable improvement, although frankly I’ve always been a bigger fan of letting older work stand as is and putting effort into making future work better. The first draft is the same story, with a few pages different here and there, but it doesn’t look as good. So I guess if you’re a cheapskate you can go ahead and get the older version, if you’re looking for the best possible edition of this comic you can get the second draft, and if you’re a comic scholar you can get both versions to compare and contrast. Everything clear now? Update: Karl says that he redrew it because he has a much longer story in mind, in case you were wondering.
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