Little, Jason – Jack’s Luck Runs Out

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Jack’s Luck Runs Out

Without even seeing this book I was under the impression that it was all hype. How good could it be? All the main characters used the faces of playing cards. How much could you do with that? Remind me never to assume anything again. This book is a tremendous accomplishment. Since facial expressions aren’t allowed to show mood, he has to use other things, such as a hand partially covering a face or exclamation points by the head to indicate surprise, and he does a fine job of it. The second story, a 3D tale called “The Abduction Announcement”, is pretty good too. I never get the 3D things to work but the actual story was good. Anyway, the main part of this book won some serious awards and was the toast of comics for a few months there a year or so ago. I’ve really got to start paying more attention to the stuff that everybody loves. The story here is that Jack is having a run of rough luck and tries to get in good with Rex (King), who has fallen for Jack’s girlfriend (Queen). The problem is that Rex is the kind of guy who doesn’t take no for an answer and Jack is a bit naive on what kind of dealings Rex is really mixed up in. This could have been done with any characters at all, but using the playing card concept raised an already exceptional story up into groundbreaking stuff. Looks like I’ll be tracking down all the recent work from this guy too now… Are you all sure that nobody wants to give me a pile of money to find all this stuff? What about you, Xeric? Granted, I don’t actually make a comic, but I’m trying to make a small press home online. Doesn’t that entitle me somehow to a pile of money to buy comics?