Numb Skull #3
I hate doing this. I’m putting this comic up because it’s the most recent thing I’ve seen from him, but I mostly don’t like it. This is a shame because I loved Narcolepsy Dreams and hadn’t really seen anything bad from him, and I don’t want the only impression on this website of Jaime to be negative. If anybody out there knows of any of his more recent work, or a place online to get his older stuff so I can review it too, please e-mail me. As for this comic, there wasn’t too much for me to get excited about. The two strips with the man sitting in front of his television, complaining, were OK up until the silly punchlines. There was a long text story about a man and his wife sticking up to some people who were assholes during a movie that read quite a bit like therapy… but it was macho, silly stuff. I liked a couple of the shorter pieces, like the one where me mused about things that make him wonder about the coming century (this is from 1999 and I guess it’s entirely possible that he’s just not doing comics any more), but overall there isn’t much here. Like I said, I’ve loved everything I’ve seen from him up until this, so don’t take this negative review as anything more than me not liking most of one issue. If you ever see any old issues of Narcolepsy Dreams, pick them up and you won’t be sorry. Send him an e-mail and see what he has available…
