Epic Tales of the Mundane #6
If I had to pick one thing that I liked about Brad’s comics (other than the fact that the worst stories in them were still at least consistently entertaining) it would be the fact that he seems determined to cram as much comic as possible into each mini container. Between the random shorties and all the strips (taken from his website, and it looks like he puts up another one every few days or so) you’re going to have a hard time finding a mini with more content. That wouldn’t make much difference if the content sucked though, and this time around: no sucking! This starts with a wonderful tale of playing an intimidating biker bar, getting drunk to compensate for feeling out of place, and having the night end with a brawl… but not that brawl you would expect. Next up is a long chunk of mostly three panels strips, and these are distinct from most three panel strips in that the vast majority of them are funny. I know, I couldn’t believe it either. That should ensure that these comics will never be published in a newspaper. Topics include the perfect evening, giving in to the iPod, worrying about life, bitching on the phone, the joys of camping, vomiting cats, raking in the dough from comic sales, the anime cock block, new glasses, drinking to help others and shark attack videos. The rest of the comic starts to tell the Brad Dwyer origin story, as his older brother reads comics to his before he can read for himself, he spends his early years trying to make his art look like comic art, and eventually ditches the glamorous cartoonist life for a band and all the fun of puberty. This is only the first part of the story though, and we all know how it turns out in the end. I’m still curious to see how he gets there though. It’s hard to get more bang for your comic buck (literally, as they’re still $1). Buy his stuff and make him slightly less poor!
