New review for Welcome to the Dahl House by Ken Dahl, and I really have to insist that you all go buy it. Yes, I’m still offering free artwork and a free comic to anybody who orders nine comics from me for the site’s nine year anniversary, but surely you can find a spare $6 for this book from Microcosm Publishing…
Update for 8/4/10
August 4, 2010
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Dahl, Ken – Welcome to the Dahl House
August 4, 2010
You know what the worst thing about mini comics is, hands down? Not the occasional amateurishness, or basic errors of composition or copying, or how people consciously or unconsciously can lift things from their idols. It’s the fact that the good stuff is so hard to come by, and if you miss it when it first comes out you’re generally screwed. Take Ken Dahl, for example. He snuck under my radar for years until I got a copy of Monsters, and I was completely blown away. Still, there didn’t seem to be a wide array of old minis that I could pick through to see what else I had done, so I let it go, as this sort of this happens all the time. Luckily for us all Microcosm publishing exists, and they were nice enough to put out a collection of work from Ken’s old minis and various anthologies. Somehow there isn’t a bad comic in this collection, and considering the range of time covered in here (at least a decade), that’s astounding. Things start off with a few strips about an elderly punk trying to get by in the world, and then turns instantly political. This is odd enough, as very few comics seem to care much about politics or the actual world these days, and this strip deals with a plane trip Ken took on 9/11/02. It’s a while ago, but us adults in the room can remember the constant fear and paranoia being pumped into the culture. Ken dealt with heavily armed guards, a creepy speech by the pilot, even the whole cabin getting up and singing the Pledge of Allegiance (seriously). Next up is a strip that circles back and eats its own tail, as Ken tries to come up with something meaningful for a zine fest, considers making a comic about farts, and finally lands on making a comic about his inability to make a comic. Eniz (the zine antidote) should be required reading for anybody who makes a mini, as it makes all sorts of important points about making comics, how they’ve been co-opted and all the talented people have fled to the internet (although I like to think a number of them have come back since this strip came out), but why the hell not make them anyway? Other stories include a guy joining the army (with the recruiting officer being the Sarge from Beetle Bailey, another piece filled with rare political observations), Ken’s mildly-but-not-really homosexual experience as a small child, some time travel hijinx, Ken’s obsession with gorgeous women while knowing that he would never want to speak to them for more then five minutes, a creepy stalker, and the quiet joy of watching Asteroids. Then there’s all the Gordon Smalls strips (a thinly disguised Ken Dahl?), dealing with such subjects as frozen bananas, peeing in the shower, swinging at night, how falling in love is a waste of time, and his decision to pick up skateboarding again 20 years after his prime. The cream of the crop of the Gordon Smalls stories is the how to steal food/how to get arrested epic, as Gordon gets put through the prison institution and sees right through it. I feel like I’m cheating by just describing the stories, as each piece is packed with critical observations of the world at large and the basic “point” of these stories is largely just there to let him rant about the world at large. There was a pile of quotes about his work at the Microcosm website, and I have to echo one of them: I don’t understand why some people get famous and others as obviously talented as Ken aren’t universally known. I’m guessing that with this and Monsters both widely available now that is going to change quickly, if it hasn’t already. And it’s a measly $6 for 122 pages? I’ve seen minis that are more expensive. Buy it already!
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Update for 8/3/10
August 3, 2010New review for Blindspot #1 by Joseph Remnant. I guess I’ll just keep mentioning the August comics sale/celebration for the nine year anniversary of the site here, although I may put up a banner of some kind before the month is up. All month long, if you buy nine comics from my store, I’ll send you a free comic and a piece of artwork I’ve gotten in the mail over the run of the site. Trust me, if you like comics, the freebies will be worth it.
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Remnant, Joseph – Blindspot #1
August 3, 2010
Blindspot #1
It’s a question at the back of my mind whenever I read a small press comic: just how cynical is this creator in understanding how likely he/she is in making any kind of a living at this? Most of them seem to know that they’re making comics for themselves and a small group of loyal and inquisitive people and will probably never make a living off of it, but then again most of them seem to be (admirably) hoping for the best, that they can eventually make a living off of their art. This question comes up in Joseph’s introduction to this comic, a brilliant little scene that has him standing in front of a fancypants backdrop, explaining to his audience that he is going to be taking them on a journey. Then his roommate pops in with reality, that the backdrop is a sham and that nobody buys individual comics any more and by the time he gets his serialized graphic novel put together, that craze will probably be over too. Ok, maybe that or a variation of that has been done before, but I thought it was a great way to get things started. From there we have his eventual serialized graphic novel called Ace Goddard Livin’ Legend, which is all about a glam rock icon from back in the day who’s been trying to put out a new album for years. As he is now a joke, nobody was interested in such a thing, and the panels the record executive and his assistant spend explaining to Ace that his only chance now is to do a “greatest hits” album and accept the fact that he’s seen as a joke to the world at large. This has all kinds of potential, and I can only hope that he was exaggerating about how long it would take him to put that story together. I checked his website and he’s going to spend the next 6 months or so completing a graphic novel he was working on with Harvey Pekar, so it may be awhile. There’s also only 7 pages of this story in this issue, so it might be a REALLY long time. Other stories in here include a tale about a woman who has been on a string of awful blind dates, a conversation in a record store about whether there is an objective truth in musical taste or if it’s all in the ear of the beholder, a man happily walking into work on a Monday morning getting gradually smashed to bits, a rich asshole at an art show who tries to impress a pretty woman, and Joseph’s tale of trying to break through the wall of comics in the online world and make an impression. There’s also a funny strip on the back cover, but I’m leaving some mystery for you people who want to buy the book. As for the look of the book, there’s not a hint of amateurishness about it. Joseph has clearly been doing this for a long time, or maybe he’s just supernaturally gifted, but there’s some damned fine artwork going on here. Some of the early pages have some unerased pencil lines for the lettering, a pet peeve of mine, but it’s faint enough that I probably wouldn’t even notice it if I wasn’t such a dick about it. It’s worth a look, that’s what I’m trying to say here. $4.50
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Update for 8/2/10
August 2, 2010New review today for The Natural World #3 by Damien Jay. So hey, in about a week I will have been rambling about comics on this site for 9 years. Nine! Outside of grades 1-12 I haven’t done anything for that long ever, and it’s not like I had much of a choice in that. I’ve been trying to think of a good way to celebrate and, as it looks like the new site won’t be quite done by then (but I do have high hopes for next month). So here’s what I’ve come up with: everybody who orders 9 comics in August gets a free comic AND a piece of artwork from the nine years I’ve been running the site. I hardly ever throw anything away (a fact I am reminded of every time I move), so I have all kinds of old artwork from people who sent me comics years ago. There’s some damned fine stuff in there, but I’m willing to give it away with orders of 9 comics or more this month because it’s a time of celebration, and I’m not one to hog a celebration. If you make an order feel free to tell me how long you’ve been reading the site. I’d love to hear from people who were there at or near the beginning of all this…
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Jay, Damien – The Natural World #3
August 2, 2010
The Natural World #3
We’re back to the characters from the first issue this time around, as Damien’s master plan starts coming more into focus. Well, just barely, but I am going with the theory that he has a master plan at work. He even changed the outfits of the bandits from the end of the last issue (he will send you a copy of #2 with the altered outfits if you’re that neurotic about it, although he used a nicer word) because that fits in with his plan for the whole series, and I’m all for that level of foresight. The hermit from the last issue doesn’t make an appearance, but we do learn that Edith (last seen having sex with Reeve in the first issue) is accused of being a witch, Walter is still wandering around the forest talking to himself (although this time he appears to be on mushrooms), and the bandits are essentially 12 year old boys who fight amongst themselves for little reason. The only trouble with a series like this is that it’s hard to build up a complex story when it’s only coming out once or twice a year, but I’m not sure what the alternative is. Somebody like Bill Gates could come out as a fan of small press comics and give everybody who ever made a mini comic $10,000, but that seems sadly unlikely. So we just have to be content with the occasional blasts of brilliance like this, with a creepy and somehow childlike man getting hugged by trees, a man who cheated on his wife trying desperately to convince what is almost an angry mob not to jump to hasty conclusions about a supposed witch, and bandits with a new set of clothes for what I’m sure is a perfectly reasonable reason in the mind of the author. $4
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Update for 8/1/10
August 1, 2010New review for First Fight by Bryan G. Brown, a comic about taking the first steps to joining the world of MMA. If you don’t know what that stands for, you clearly need to check out this comic.
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Brown, Bryan G. – First Fight
August 1, 2010
First Fight
Now here’s something you don’t see every day in the world of small press comics: the story of the author’s first mixed martial arts fight. Take that, everybody who holds the stereotype of artists as awkward nerds! Bryan had always been a fan of fighting, due to the influence of some early fighting movies and the fact that boxing was the only sport he would watch with his father as a child. He had a stable life as an artist with a family, but decided that he wanted to go and do things that he had always wanted to do, so he decided to train for a MMA fight. After training for a few weeks (and appearing to be only so-so at it), his coach told him about a tournament that had a Novices division (people with less than 9 months of training). Bryan had three months to train so he really pushed himself, lost 30 pounds to qualify for a weight division and seemed to improve his skills greatly. So the day of the tournament finally rolls around, and Bryan gets there only to discover that his coach has dropped out unexpectedly at the last minute. He wavers, but decides to stick with it, going out for his fight alone, and if I mention any more I’m going to spoil the ending. I for one didn’t know that there was a class of MMA where striking wasn’t permitted, where the only way to win a fight was through submission holds. That can still be dangerous, obviously, but it sounds a whole lot less brutal than pummeling a novice repeatedly. The man seems to be a professional artist, so it’s no surprise that this book looks as nice as it does, but he really does a tremendous job of illustrating the fight. Every hold and counter looked like actual holds and counters, something that is crucial in a book like this but would have been easy to get wrong. Bryan hopes to go on to more fights, and here’s hoping if he does that he keeps making comics about it, because reading about the whole process here (all the training, advice, how he heard the other coach give his guy advice during the fight) all really flesh out the MMA world and make it clear that it’s not a simple, brainless thing, an impression people could easily get if they’ve just seen a match or two on Spike TV. As for you, gentle reader, if you hate violence there is no blood in this book, so at least there’s that. For anybody who is curious about this world and wants to see what it’s like, this is a great introduction. I’m not seeing a price, but $5 makes sense to me…
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Update for 7/30/10
July 30, 2010Finally got the review up for Good Minnesotan #4 up, so huzzah for that!
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Various Good Minnesotans – Good Minnesotan #4
July 30, 2010
Good Minnesotan #4
I’m in a bit of a pickle here. You see, the Good Minnesotans responsible for putting this anthology together sent a collection of minis that make up GM #4, all bundled up in a lovely slipcase. However, they recently had a successful fundraiser that will let them print this whole pile of comics in (what I believe to be) one volume. So my righteous rant about how silly it is to put a table of contents with page listings when there are no page numbers in the comics can’t go anywhere because they will probably have that problem fixed in the final edition. That’s fine, there’s no reason to focus on the negative with a pile of stories like this anyway. It will also make my selection of a sample image from each of the 5 minis seems a little excessive (and guys, if this is too many for you let me know and I’ll take most of them down), but I’m trying to give a flavor for the whole thing here. I was also going to break this down into five sections, one for each mini, but as they aren’t numbered in any way I’m just going to go with my usual clumpy review. Tales in here include some creepy microscopic organisms by Justin Skarhus, The Poo Lagoon by Lupi (sadly, it seems to be a true story), is it a caraway seed or a rat turd by Sarah Julius (I think), Nic Breutzman as a child watching his neighborhood being built and marveling at the quiet at the end of the day, Kevin Cannon’s recap of the men who tried to be the first to reach the North (and South) Pole, a pile of creepy and moody photographs by Buck Sutter, planting mama with the onions by Anna Bongiovanni, Renny Kissling’s silent tale of an alien being tortured,Meghan Hogan’s adventures of crocheted animals, Martha Iserman with the adventures of her stuffed parrot-beaked puffer fish, and some food thievery by Raighne Hogan. There is one mini that stands alone as a complete story, by both Justin Skarlus and Raighne Hogan (each taking half the book) about a terminator-ish creature that doesn’t seem to have much of an ability to stick with one target, but that’s probably because I’m imposing that idea onto that character. It’s a bizarre pile of transporting vaginas, submachine guns, brain-eating and quiet contemplation. You’d love it! So, at the end of the day, I don’t know what the final version of this comic is going to look like. I hope they can keep the front and back cover of the slipcase, and I hope they manage to number the pages to go along with their table of contents, and I hope it’s clear that I’m not even commenting on about 1/3 of the stories in this to leave some surprises for you people. If you’ve seen the past issues of this series you know that “Good Minnesotan” is a mark of quality, and they didn’t disappoint this time around.
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Update for 7/29/10
July 29, 2010New review for XO #6 by Brian John Mitchell & Melissa Spence Gardner. I’m working on a review for the sprawling Good Minnesotan #4, but have had website stuff this week (shocking, I know) and don’t want to rush through it. Maybe tomorrow, maybe this weekend. And hey, why don’t you people order some comics? I’ve been trying to figure out if the store is working properly again, and it sure seems like it is, but I won’t know for sure until somebody orders something. Pretty please?
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Mitchell, Brian John – XO #6 (with Melissa Spence Gardner)
July 29, 2010
XO #6
It feels like I haven’t reviewed an issue of XO in ages. Granted, that certainly isn’t Brian’s fault, as he continues to crank out these minis at a ridiculous pace. Luckily he’s more than smart enough to put a recap on the first page, so people with spotty memories like me have a chance to get caught up. In the last issue there was the small matter of a murder and what to do with the body, so this issue takes care of all that. It’s less suspenseful than you might think, as the main character is given an address to take the body and goes on his merry way. Nobody seems to suspect anything, our hero gets cover at his work so nothing is out of the ordinary, and all he has to do is take a 12 hour drive down to Miami. Oh, and did I mention that our hero is 16 and has never left the area? After all the murders of the first few issues this one was downright serene, as the narrator contemplates the fact that he could now never become a writer (writers have to write what they know, and he can never risk news of the murder getting out) and wonders what other career he could come up with. By the end of the issue he has a pretty good idea, but why spoil that for you? In case people see the vast body of work that Brian has put out over the last couple of years and want to try something but don’t know where to start, I’m going to suggest going for a full series instead of getting one or two issues of everything. In the mood for a fantastic western revenge story? Get Just A Man. Like to read about failed relationships, or at least relationships that left serious emotional scars? Lost Kisses is for you. How about creepy government paranoia and parasitical invasion? Worms, my good chap (or chapette). Or, if “in over his head but still preternaturally calm about it”, why not try XO? $5 gets you pretty much any of the series I mentioned, and who doesn’t have $5 stashed away somewhere for good comics? $1
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Update for 7/28/10
July 28, 2010New review for Robots Are People, Too! #1 edited by Greg Vonduskra, and who wants to hire me in Champaign? What do you mean there are no jobs out there? Uh-oh…
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Vondruskra, Greg (editor) – Robots Are People, Too! #1
July 28, 2010
Robots Are People, Too! #1
I figured it would be a difficult thing for this comic to live up to that cover, and it managed to pull it off rather easily. Note: I’m just guessing on the number, as Greg sent along other issues of this series as well, but it makes sense to me. So what, this comic is all about robots? Well yeah, what else would you expect from that title? The themes here stay fairly similar, but there’s more than enough variety to satisfy the cynics. Unless you hate robots altogether, or think it’s only a matter of time before they rule us all. Silly people! What makes you think the human race is going to survive long enough to be taken over by robots? Stories in this book of wonders include Let Me Tell You About My Mother by Victor Claudio (a surreal tale with the dialogue being taken entirely from Blade Runner), Great Americans by Lou Copeland (in which the true history of Davy Crockett is revealed), People Are Robots, Too by Steven Mangold (a fascinating text piece about the point at which a machine might reach independent consciousness and what happens next), Android Institute by Jerry Stanford (a parody of the old comic book ads), Rodney vs. Jer. Mac by Jason Franks (in which the horrible sin of clip art is saved by a great punchline), Lonely Robot by Daniel Boyd (a silent piece about, um, a lonely robot), Dick Danger by Fran Matera (a noir thriller about mistaking a femmebot for a woman), Handybot by LaMontagne, Mangold & Wiedemer (possibly the highlight of the book, a fake legal disclaimer detailing all the potential troubles of owning the HandyBot (formerly Destructomat)), some sketchbook pages by a variety of folks (this killed the momentum of the book a bit but they were still interesting sketches), and …Only Flesh and Blood by Greg Vondruskra (in which a robot sort of falls for a human, but does realize that this one will never live to see Halley’s Comet again). I don’t know if this series is still going (this issue came out in 2007), but if it’s not it should be. I would think this would be the sort of thing all sorts of small press folk could get behind if given the chance. Greg’s site leaves that a bit of a mystery, along with whether or not you can get copies from him. Oh well, if you can find it and if you’re a fan of robots, it’s more than worth the effort. $5
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Update for 7/27/10
July 27, 2010New review today for Slices by Jaime Crespo!
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Crespo, Jaime – Slices #1
July 27, 2010
Slices #1
Please note: this is not listed as #1, and I have no reason to believe that there is more of this series to come. It’s mostly just a hopeful gesture from me that he keeps these coming, because you’re not likely to find a more entertaining pack of short bios of the lives of all sorts of people. This strip is based on a much older strip that Jaime gave up years ago, so the people described are mostly folks Jaime knew 20+ years ago. He tries to give “where are they now?” type information whenever possible, but there are plenty of people in here who just faded away. Some of the highlights of this 40 page comic (and, with each page being a strip, that’s basically the life story of 40 people) include the life of a 22 year old cat, an annoying drunk who at least always paid for beer, a “ladies man”, a busybody, a rich asshole (is there any other kind?), going way too far with “God’s will”, an acid casualty, the perfect stereotype of a stoner (that happened to be a real person), the stupidest guy in the world, “dog face”, a punk rock girl who just couldn’t seem to leave town, a very creepy gay guy, a born hustler, a girl shaped like a cylinder who never spoke, a self-destructive musician, Jaime getting stuck on a train, the mystery of Skip, and a dog that peed everywhere. I’m still leaving out about half of the stories, and I’m barely scratching the surface of the ones I did talk about, but there are a few samples up at his site so you can pick through them at your leisure. I’m glad to see Jaime getting all the way back into comics, I was just starting off with the small press stuff right around the time that he quit originally, so I only saw a few of his earlier books. Still, he was on his way to becoming a small press legend (for whatever that’s worth) when he dropped out because of the need to raise a family and make a few bucks, so I’m thrilled to see a couple new comics from the guy and the fact that he’s working on a graphic novel at the moment. If you’ve started reading these things in the last 10 years or so you might not know the guy, but keep an eye out for his name, as I think he’s going to win over all sorts of folks. It was tough as hell to pick a sample strip for this comic, which is always a good sign, and pretty much all the strips in here are either entertaining, informative of just plain weird, which is the right mixture for me. $4
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Update for 7/26/10
July 26, 2010New review today for Skullyflower #1 by Dragon Messmer and yes, that is her real name. The new version of the site is coming together, I’ve been gathering up all the old update dates so there can finally be a listing of when exactly the reviews were written (something people have been asking about for years), and I even have another trick or two up my sleeves. Patience, good comic readers, it is all slowly coming together.
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Messmer, Dragon – Skullyflower #1
July 26, 2010
Skullyflower #1
I checked her website and yes, her real name is in fact “Dragon”. I believe she is legally obligated to make comics with that name, and as far as I can tell she’s off to an excellent start. Dragon sent me a pile of her conics, so this is the first of many that will be up on the site soon (even more if she holds to her promise in the letter to keep them coming). She describes the first two minis of this series as “really rough”, but I don’t see it. I’m guessing the art gets better, but it’s not like this issue looked terrible. Maybe a little short on backgrounds, but it held up really well as a weekly strip. Or at least it held up well as the kind of weekly strip I enjoy: the kind that’s just a serialized way to tell a story. There’s a punch line here or two (like in the sample image), but they’re mostly decent ending lines, and things bleed over to the next strip with a bare minimum of “here’s what happened in the last strip, and my telling you this will kill off at least 1/4 of the strip” kind of nonsense. Anyway, this is the story of Skullyflower, a talking flower with skull for a face. What else could it be? This creature is bored as can be living at the graveyard until a mourning woman finally talks to it and decides to take it home. Most of this comic is setting up Skullyflower and the main human character (Hydra), which is accomplished neatly in the walk home. Along the way we also meet her neighbor Frank (and I’m sure we’ll be hearing more about that guy along the way), hear about other neighbors, meet her two sock puppets and check out her house. This could go in any number of directions from here, but I enjoyed the beginning. The second issue looks like it follows the same format as the first, but the third issue looks much bigger and fancier. I’ll get reviews up in the coming weeks and find out for sure, but for now there’s a whole pile of free samples at her site, so you don’t have to rely on my opinion of such things to make up your own mind. $2
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Update for 7/23/10
July 23, 2010New review for Billy the Demon Slayer S2 #3 by Hayden Fryer, who is in Australia. I have plenty more stuff from outside the country but have to go away from the weekend and I can’t let the rest of the comics pile get away from me, so things go back to normal next week. I may do another theme week soon or I’ll probably just incorporate the foreign stuff in with the rest of the reviews like usual. Happy weekend everybody!
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Fryer, Hayden – Billy the Demon Slayer S2 #3
July 23, 2010
Billy the Demon Slayer S2 #3
If I’m having a tough time keeping track of the story now, it must have been really tough on the people reading this when it first came out. There was apparently a long delay in getting this issue out and this issue goes straight from the end of the second issue. I still wish I had the first series of this book, as that would probably answer more than a few questions, but I’ll just keep flailing about and hoping that I hit on a good point or two. Hey, exactly the same as all my other reviews! This time around Billy is “underground” and trying to get information on the new sinister plot while his friends are still in town. Things get bad in a hurry, as a crowd of zombies (described by a confused local as “some kind of an emo party”) descends upon the town. Still, so far they seem to just be standing around, waiting for the word to start their mission. Billy is actually fairly restrained in this issue, but I expect that to change in a big way for the next issue. One thing is abundantly clear after reading this: before I review #4 I’m going to have to go back and read this series all in a row. This issue by issue business just isn’t cutting it for me this time around. The good news is that there were fewer grammatical errors (I’ve given up hope of the guy ever learning the difference between “too” and ‘to”), we still got the “where are they now” section to detail the fates of the side characters who wander off at the end of every issue, and there’s still some pretty great dialogue going on. Still, I’m left with the feeling I had when I started watching Buffy at the start of the third season: I thought it was fantastic, but some of the finer points were lost on me because I didn’t know the history. $3.50
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