Zirp #6
Ah, foreign language comics. Sometimes they’re impossible to review, sometimes (like with this one) the translations are right on the bottom each page, making it a breeze. Of course, there was also a fairly long interview in German included and what looked like some reviews for his past work, but I’m sure the man was limited in the number of pages he could use, and you can’t translate everything. It also came with a music CD by Flamyng, which I’m listening to as I’m writing this. This isn’t a music review website, but I like some of it quite a bit (mostly the wordless stuff), other songs not as much. Fine, all the bells and whistles are out of the way, what about the comic? He mostly keeps the words to a minimum anyway, and the comic also includes three fold out double sided spread pages. The story starts off with our hero riding his bike home, and along the way this somehow seriously annoys a furry that was picking up very shiny loose change from the street. Maybe it was the wind from his bike? In any case, the furry takes out his rage on the next person to ride a bike in that area. Our hero (Lenni) then tries to nail down some banking rates, visits his sick mother, and takes his child to the beach, where they see some of the most striking visual imagery of the comic: several large balloon animals, the type you’d usually see in a parade. From here we learn that he is not at all on good terms with his ex, and I should probably stop there before I tell you the whole comic. The book is gorgeous, the story is solid (apparently the first part of a series), and it comes with a free music CD. What more could you ask for? $12
