Lea, Chelsea – Pipe Bomb #32

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Pipe Bomb #32

I can’t tell you how much that “#32” impresses me. I don’t see enough comics get to #2 these days, let alone #32. This is about half zine and half comics, so it’s another one of those things that’s hard to categorize. Which is fine, who likes categories anyway? The writing in here is mostly about Chelsea’s life and how she tries to balance school with finding a job and still throwing some social life in there somewhere, but she also explains how, due to all the comics, she sees everything in her daily life with panels, and thinks of how it could work as a comic. She also throws in her calendar for February and a copy of her very first check for a published strip, in the local paper Flagpole (which seemed like an altogether impressive publication, at least the issue I picked up o during my trip to Athens). Then you get to the comics, which are all one of two page strips about taking a piss, a banana peel, Polar Girl, police states, her rambling on a trapeze, and a couple other things but hey, why spoil all the surprises? A couple of the endings for her strips were a little lame and formulaic, but I can overlook that kind of thing as long as the comics themselves were good, and she certainly had that covered. It’s only a buck to check this out, and if you like it you have 31 back issues to find, so why not give it a shot? Here’s an e-mail address, she probably has more info…