Reality on the Rocks #1 (written by David Arroyo)
If you’ve read the other stuff on this page, you’ll be happy to know that this issue is better than the other ones. The only real gripe I have is that the black people in this book are written like they’ve never seen a black person, or if they have they’ve only seen them in bad movies. The boobs, which were almost overpowering at times in the other books, have been trimmed down to more realistic levels, which is a good thing, because this book is about young people going through life as realistically as possible. It’s basically about four people. One of them is addicted to video games, another one is doesn’t have much of a personality at all yet, and the other two are the very odd black guys. It’s hard to say too much about a book like this until you get a few issues worth of personality. I don’t know how good the prospects are for that, frankly, because there wasn’t any kind of publication date for #2 in here and it apparently took about three years just to get this issue yet. If I had to give Juan any advice at all, I’d say to stick to one series and get a few issues out, see how that goes. If those aren’t the characters you want to deal with, move on to another series, as you have a few to choose from. Just my advice, anyway. Contact info is up there, as always…
