New review for Mimi’s Doughnuts #19 by Marek Bennett, and the site may be going over to a new place other than WordPress soon to combat the store troubles and the prospective troubles with the rental service. This means the site may be getting a different look again, as it has quite often lately, but don’t fret if you hate change, as the content will be the same as ever.
Update for 7/11/10
July 11, 2010
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Bennett, Marek – Mimi’s Doughnuts #19
July 11, 2010
Mimi’s Doughtnuts #19
I don’t believe it. Not that I want to call Marek a liar or anything, as I’ve enjoyed his comics immensely and he always seemed like a nice enough guy to me, but I don’t see how this was a 24 hour comic. OK, he used stick figures for the stories, and OK, the backgrounds are reasonably sparse, as that’s a requirement with 24 hour comics. Still, the backgrounds aren’t THAT sparse, the layout of the comic doesn’t look possible in a 24 hour time frame, and there are just too many distinct stories in here for me to understand the time frame. He did say in his intro that he had a number of stories ready to go before he started, that he used tales from his childhood, his friends and friends of friends to make these pieces. He also mentions that the restricting spaces of the stories sometimes changed the stories he was told/remembered a little bit, but the basics are the same as real life. Aw, screw it. I’m going to give up my skepticism and just give him credit for putting out an exceptionally thought out mini comic in a very short time span. The theme of the comic, as should be expected from that cover, is health. The characters from past issues of Mimi’s Doughnuts don’t make an appearance, as these are all stories about various health problems and the trouble that everybody has with their health insurance companies. The health problems listed include early allergies (and the awful moment when a young Marek (?) found out that he was allergic to cats), a persistent cough (and hey, that story was missing a resolution), spousal abuse (OK, the kids heard it as a mutual fight, but it didn’t look good to me), acne (with the hilarious ending of finding out years later that the pills prescribed may cause later heart problems), a broken/damaged thumb, a stroke (with his later fight against the symptoms of a deceased relative), a finger (with the obligatory fight with the insurance company for coverage of the problems), a kidney (and the insurance company’s deliberately cheating him out of his needed payment), a heart (with the heartbreaking tale of the young girl who would need a transplant possibly by age 25 and how tough it would be for her to ever get insurance because this was the dreaded “pre-existing condition”), blood (from a heart attack), and face (with a silly facelift and the conversation that went with it). It’s a great pile of stories that wasn’t hurt a bit by the 24 hour time limit. Check it out, anybody who has ever been sick can relate to some of the nonsense in this volume. $3
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Update for 7/9/10
July 9, 2010New review for The Fifty Flip Experiment #13 by Dan Hill. Hey, I reviewed #1 last time, figured I might as well go all the way to the end (?) of the series. Oh, and that fundraiser I mentioned to support the second issue of Secret Prison? They still need $465 with 16 days to go. Lucky for you they still have copies of Box Brown’s Everything Dies #1 (which I absolutely loved) for a $5 pledge or three comics from William Cardini for the same $5, which is a steal. If you’ve been holding off on getting either of those things I’d say now is the perfect time, as you get the comics and the sense of self-satisfaction that comes with helping a worthy cause.
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Hill, Dan – The Fifty Flip Experiment #13
July 9, 2010
The Fifty Flip Experiment #13
You can tell it’s going to be a great comic when you’re already laughing at the introduction. Of course, I was laughing more at my own level of cynicism than anything else, as Dan apologized for being three weeks late with this issue. Three weeks! That’s a man who’s dedicated to putting his bi-monthly comic out on a bi-monthly basis. Does anybody remember why Drawn & Quarterly was named Drawn & Quarterly? Hint: it has to do with putting comics of a series out on a quarterly basis. I think they kept to that for maybe the first year or so, or at least tried to, before abandoning all pretense of that being the case. Of course, according to Dan’s website this is the last issue he’s put out (in September 2009), so maybe regularly putting out comics got to him. So how about the comic? It seems… fluffier than usual, like he was trying to burn up page space by dragging stories out for pages that could have ended far sooner. Not that they’re actively bad stories, but I can see why the man maybe took a break after this one. The first half of the comic is a story about an alien coming to earth, something that felt more like a movie of the week than anything else, but he did manage to spice things up a bit, and the fact that schmaltz can be funny helped him out a bit. Other stories include a mildly pointless piece about lounging in space, a shortie about a psychiatrist with a good punchline, Spoons for Handsman eats too many Rolos (hey wait a minute, how did he open all those Rolos with spoons for hands?) and a meandering piece about the national conspiracy to hide any evidence of queefs. Kids, ask your parents. On second thought just use the internet, as asking your parents would be the most uncomfortable conversation of your life. Overall there’s still good to be found here, but if he is taking a break from his grueling schedule (and in the context of small press comics I mean that sincerely), I hope he’s working on tightening his game up a bit. That and deciding that it’s OK not to have at least one page per comic where you can still see the unerased pencil lines… $2
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Update for 7/8/10
July 8, 2010New review for The Honduran Coup: A Graphic History by Dan Archer. I should also mention that I screwed up a few days ago in my review for Noah Van Sciver’s Blammo #6 in saying that it was self-published. It was not. Kilgore Books in Denver published it, and I think this is either their first published comic or one of the first, so you can already tell they have great taste. If you’re in the area go buy some of their books, comical or otherwise!
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Archer, Dan – The Honduran Coup: A Graphic History
July 8, 2010
The Honduran Coup: A Graphic History
If you’re not a fan of comics where you might learn something, you had better move on on to something lighter. There are plenty of options to choose from on this site, as very few comic creators bother to write about important political and military happenings around the world. Editorial cartoonists like Tom Tomorrow and Lloyd Dangle, sure, but they’re not telling a lengthy story and they’re restricted to telling things that they can either explain in their weekly strips or are already common knowledge. Dan has managed to tell the story of this coup from start to finish, and if you just see the word “coup” and think it must be ancient history, nope: this covers the period from 6/28/o9 to as close to present day as publishing this comic allowed. Dan also gets in the history of the place, as the U.S. and its various corporations have determined the course of history in that country for a very long time. Manual Zelaya took a few steps to make things better for the common people and was deposed in a military coup for his troubles, and wait’ll you see what happened to the people responsible for the coup. Here’s a hint: jack shit. As always Dan’s work is meticulously sourced, so if you have a moment or two when you have a “wait, did that really happen/did they really say that?” moment, it’s easy as can be to check it out for yourself. In between the mealy-mouthed Democrats who don’t seem to take much of a stand on anything and the lone current crazy Republican sourced, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that this was a bipartisan avoidance of responsibility, which is the way of the world here in the U.S. Fun fact: torture never had a majority of Americans support it (according to polls), even through all the Bush years, until very recently. After Obama gave it his tacit endorsement (and that’s what it was when he closed the door on ever prosecuting the war criminals who tortured, a tacit endorsement), suddenly the people who don’t follow the news thought that it must not be that bad if both sides let it go at best and fully approved it at worst. I don’t mention politics on this site often because that’s not the point of the site, but comics like this bring it out of me. Anyway, there’s not much point of me spoiling the story. The end was still a mystery to me, as the media lost interest here after the successful “elections” and I never did hear what happened to all the people who supported the democratically elected guy, not to mention what happened to Zelaya himself. OK, here’s one spoiler alert: the good guys didn’t win this one. Then again, that never seems to happen, does it? I can see why people ignore the news altogether, that’s for sure. Oh, and this is also a flip book, but it’s the same book twice, just one half in English and one half in Spanish. I would think two different versions would have made more sense, but I could see where this would be a handy tool in multicultural classrooms… assuming kids are ever allowed to be taught about this shameful episode. $5
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Update for 7/7/10
July 7, 2010New review for Secret Prison #1 edited by Ian Harker and containing all sorts of folks. They’re also holding a fundraiser to put the next issue out and, as of right now, are $530 away from their goal with 18 days to go. Even if you’re not one to give money away on even a worthwhile project like this, you should know that donations = goods from them. I recommend the $5 option where you get three issues of comics from William Cardini; that’s a freaking steal right there. I’m not familiar with a lot of the other comics, but the point is that you get comics back for your money and you’re doing a good deed for the comic’s world by helping but another issue out. If I had $50 free bucks to my name I’d love to get the Pat Aulisio original custom drawing, that’s for sure…
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Harker, Ian (editor) – Secret Prison #1
July 7, 2010
Secret Prison #1
Ah, the wonders of the newspaper style anthology comic. It’s impossible for me to scan, but luckily I was able to um, “borrow for all time” (sounds so much nicer than stealing, and I’ll be happy to take them down and have this instead posted with no images if necessary) a couple of images, so you don’t have to go into this blind. One problem with this springs instantly to mind: I’m not sure how people are supposed to get a copy of it outside of being at one of the cons where this and the upcoming issue #2 will be presented. I say “presented” instead of “sold”, as this one is listed as free right there on the cover. At the moment Pat is trying to pull together the funds for the second issue. By donating to the cause you can get the first and second issues in the mail, so that’s at least one way to see them, and you have the added benefit of helping out a worthy endeavor. As usual with anthologies, this one is a bit of a mixed bag. More good than bad though, including strips by Art Baxter (dealing with a reluctance to go forward and “living” with the consequences of working up the courage), Box Brown (in which a Googling quest to find news on Audie Murphy turns into self-reflection and slumber), Cyn Why on the high price of becoming Queen on the Internet (at least I think it’s her, if that list of the contributors at the start of the book is the order in which they appear), Kelly Phillips showing the life of a grumpy mountain, Steve Teare with a brutal beating, and Jason Clarke with a problem solver. Actually, looking through the pieces I didn’t mention it’s not like there’s a ton of badness there either. There’s Pat Aulisio’s strip, sampled below, and his art keeps getting tighter all the time. Bob Pistilli’s Skortch seems to be the start of something bigger and at least has the decency to show us lots of naked ladies while we wait for the story to develop. Ian Harker has the quiet, sad life of a super villain (?) on an almost inconceivable world. Beth Heinly has the simplest piece of the comic that I can’t talk about even a little without giving away. Tommy Rudmose has a man literally confined to the panel walls. Andrea Grigoropl & Dan Fitz have a piece of a man, after being hit by a bus, making his own decision about going on with life. That’s everything, and there’s not much bad there at all. Some things need to be fleshed out a bit more, which will have a chance to happen if they can afford to make the next issue, but most everything in there works as a single page story. I’ll update this page if I get a clear idea of where exactly you could get a copy of this and future issues, but in the meantime keep an eye out at cons.
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Update for 7/6/10
July 6, 2010New review for Blammo #6 by Noah Van Sciver, and I have the store back up and running. Prices show and everything! Granted, it looks ugly as hell at the moment, but it does work if you want some comics for your oily beach experience this summer.
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Van Sciver, Noah – Blammo #6
July 6, 2010
Blammo #6
I have a theory about the longevity of small press comic artists, based upon many years of observation of the behavior of these fascinating creatures in their natural habitat. I’m going to avoid naming names because otherwise I’d be sure to leave somebody out or offend them, but it seems like most of them need either the money or artistic validation to eventually get published somewhere. Your fantasy/superhero types want to eventually make it to the “big leagues”, and that’s true of the smaller “big leagues” of the alternative comics world. There are also plenty who don’t give a shit and they’ll keep making comics until they eventually get tired of it, and these people you can usually spot because they always come back to the business, even after being away from it for years. They just can’t help themselves. Then there are people like (not naming names, but there is certainly more than one), who seemed to have a really good thing going but just gave up the ghost after a few really great issues. I can’t say that I blame them for quitting, as doing as thankless a job as making comics without any significant compensation must be trying. Where was I going with all this? Oh yeah. Noah Van Sciver is on the sixth issue of Blammo, as you may have guessed from that prominent “#6” up there. He is still self-publishing. He is also getting better and better with each passing issue, even though I continually think he must have hit a high water mark. I don’t know if Noah is the type of person to eventually give up if Fantagraphics/Top Shelf/Drawn & Quarterly don’t publish him sooner or later, but do we really want to take that chance? Take a risk, one of you guys, this guy is more than worth it. So how about the comic? I sampled the very first page, as I just couldn’t help it. Other stories include Abby’s Road (told from the perspective of a 21 year old juggalo/stoner who’s “dating” a 17 year old high school girl, he’s exactly what you think he is and it’s a perspective not often seem in small press comics), As I Remember It (written by Noah’s brother, a quiet moment in the life of the early Van Sciver family), Chicken Strips (still going, Bill goes to heaven, with a fantastic final page spread), Convention (yes, these are fairly common in these types of comics, but it’s still insightful as hell and worth it for the haunted look on the face of John Porcellino), The Krampus Visit (dealing with an asshole singer and an even assholier man trying to get an autograph), and The Easy Life (telling you how easy it would be to quit your job, kill your boss and take over the world). There’s also his sure-to-be breakout hit Punks Vs. Lizards, which is exactly what it sounds like: 5 pages of punks gruesomely killing giant lizards.  If all his smart and meaningful strips can’t make him millions, maybe this one can. Oh, and don’t forget a few pages of shorter strips, reader mail and last words. It’s a whole comic book experience, in other words, and one that most people don’t bother putting together these days. I doubt if I have much in the way of “cred” in the small press hierarchy, but if I have a shred of it, I am asking somebody to take a risk and publish this man. We can’t risk losing him to apathy or one of those paying jobs I keep hearing about. Barring that, the least you can do individually is buy his comics, and you get the added benefit of owning a really fantastic comic. Where’s the flaw in that? $3.95
UPDATE 7/7/10: This was actually published by Kilgore Books & Comics from Denver. That big “Kilgore” on the cover should have clued me in, but I missed it, and anybody who published a comic like this deserves the highest of praise, not being left out of the article entirely because I wasn’t being careful enough to include them. Mea culpa.
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Update for 7/5/10
July 5, 2010New review for Radio Free Gahanna #1 by James Moore & Joel Jackson, and please bear with us while we try to fix a few broken things on the site. Needless to say, if you try to order comics and don’t hear back from me in 24 hours, feel free to check in to make sure something didn’t get screwed up along the way…
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Moore, James & Jackson, Joel – Radio Free Gahanna #1
July 5, 2010
Radio Free Gahanna #1
Are you either in your mid 20’s and unsure of what to do with your life, or perhaps someone who is interested in reading stories about such things? If so, this comic is for you. If you’re perhaps one of the many people who have read more than their share of stories on that topic and are curious if this comic is more of the same or an exciting new entry to the field… I’m not sure yet. There’s promise here for something fresh and interesting, that’s for sure. Any questions you might have had about the process behind the book are happily answered by James in his intro and outro, as he details growing up being able to find other people who shared his odd tastes (thanks to the internet he didn’t have to work for it quite as much as us older fogies), his enduring love for radio as the format that introduced him to many of these oddities, and his desire to write a story about the propensity of people in their mid 20’s to either have a massive screw-up at that time in their lives or simply fail to live up to their potential. Anybody who is even mildly dissatisfied with their job or life is bound to find something to relate to in these essays, and I’m guessing that’s a good chunk of the population. Anyway, the comic is the story of Sam, a young woman who finds herself stuck at a giant megamart store after seemingly having everything her way. Still, she finds herself single (after her long term boyfriend cheated on her), directionless and so lonely that she’s even willing to chat with a creep looking for sex late at night. Her mother is worried, her friend (who is, of course, happy and traveling the world) is worried, and things are looking bleak. Then, while reading a book (I wish it was clear if it was a real book or made up), something clicks in her head, she digs up an old zine that clearly means a lot to her, and the comic ends with her meeting the man who must have put that book out years ago. Um, spoiler alert. Where it goes from there is anyone’s guess. It might turn into a cliche, or it might keep heading towards having something important to say on the subject. I’m leaning towards the second option so far but, like I said, it’s very early to make that judgment. Other things of interest in this book include album reviews for Postal Service and Death Cab For Cutie and the fact that every character is introduced with their age, dating status and favorite song listed, which I thought was a nice simple touch to meet these characters. Now as long as these two don’t fall prey to the “one or two issues and then vanish” curse of mini comics they may be onto something… $2.99
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Update for 7/3/10
July 3, 2010New review for Piecemeal by Nate Beaty, and I may or may not be around for the rest of the holiday weekend, but don’t be shocked to see me vanish for a day or two. Shouldn’t you be out blowing things up instead of sitting in front of a computer anyway?
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Beaty, Nate – Piecemeal
July 3, 2010
Piecemeal
I’ve been hoping to catch something else from Nate now that Brainfag is dead and gone, and the man was nice enough to send along a copy of his latest. If you’re not a regular reader of the site I highly recommend going back and reading my reviews for his various Brainfag books. Not that I said anything particularly penetrating or insightful, but that collected edition is something every comic fan with any taste should own. So how about this one? Was his talent connected only to the title of his last comic? Um, no, of course not. What a stupid thing to think. There are two stories this time around, the first dealing with all sorts of embarrassing moments from early puberty. There’s the formerly complicated setup and take down process involved with watching porn back in the day (kids, us old folk often tell you to appreciate things that we didn’t have growing up, but internet porn would have led to an entirely different generation), a drunken party filled with kids in high school, his recent ex and the fact that every guy in town seemingly wanted to get with her now that she was single, and a delightfully awkward depiction of some “hot” sex with his ex. The second part of the comic is the wordless tale of a dream, half-dream, or possibly just the weirdest night of Nate’s life. He climbs up a gigantic tree, but as he goes too high a branch cracks and he’s lucky to land on his little makeshift treehouse instead of what looks like at least 50 feet down to the ground. He then proceeds to cautiously go down his rope ladder, but it hasn’t been secured properly and this also collapses on his, leading to a lengthy and painful crash to the ground. Here’s where things shift a little, as he stumbles into a dark house and is desperately trying to get away from a shadowy creature. Then a white bear shows up… on second thought, you can interpret all this for yourself. I have my own theories, but I’ve also been known to take things too literally and that’s clearly not what he’s going for with this story. Overall it’s a solid mini with a healthy balance of past humiliation combined with a widely open to interpretation silent piece. $4
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Update for 7/2/10
July 2, 2010New review today for Lackluster World #6 by Eric Adams. One holdover I have from my days of buying piles of Marvel comics as a kid is that I still occasionally put the comics I most look forward to reading at the bottom of a (usually metaphorical) pile. I do so love it when that added anticipation is rewarded with a really excellent comic.
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Adams, Eric – Lackluster World #6
July 2, 2010
Lackluster World #6
Where do I start? There’s the fact that it’s only through sheer force of will that I confined myself to two samples of this comic (the pages with the surprise appearance of two hilariously fictional characters), even though I’ve been sticking to the formula of one sample per comic for years. There’s also the fact that we finally get an issue focused slightly on Celsius, although really it’s more about getting her brothers in their proper places for the finale in the next issue. And hey, finale! That’s a damned shame, even though I do approve of a finite series. OK, I’m reining it in now, otherwise I’ll just randomly gush for a while and call it a day. I’m assuming that everybody reading this is caught up on the events of the first five issues of this series, and if you’re not, you’re only hurting yourselves. This time around Fahrenheit has been exposed as the graffiti artist, Kelvin has beaten a man to death with his bible and been locked in a loony bin, and Celsius is left with no clue of what to do with herself. Those early pages where she fights off blind panic with trivialities was a thing of beauty. Fahrenheit is kind of just killing time this issue, but that only leaves more room for Kelvin and his delightful delusions. My choice of two samples of that probably gives away my opinion, but I honestly could have sampled that entire sequence if I thought it was remotely legal or fair to the creator. There’s insight into Kelvin’s origin story (i.e. “why he went nuts”), Celsius taking a halting step or two towards independence, and all kinds of serious mayhem. Eric has even managed to end things on just about the perfect cliffhanger, made even more perfect by the fact that the next issue will be the last in the series. I may have had quibbles here and there with Lackluster World when it started, but this issue was, top to bottom, a flawless comic. Facial expressions, dialogue, sly background gags, pacing, everything worked as well as humanly possible this time around, enough so that I have to repeat my warning: if you’re not keeping up with this series, you’re depriving yourself of something that comes along in this business only rarely. I’m not sure what he has planned next, if anything, but here’s hoping Eric builds off this and the finale of the series and keeps it up with the comics. Issues like this prove that he has it in him to become one of the big names of the industry, as long as the long odds of actually making a living at this sort of thing doesn’t scare him away. And ordinarily I would complain about that steep $6 cover price, but it is absolutely worth it. $6
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Update for 7/1/10
July 1, 2010New review for Worms #6 by Brian John Mitchell & Kimberlee Traub, and all this website crap is getting on my nerves. Has anybody else had problems ordering stuff this last month? I can only hope that you would have contacted me if that was the case, but the one case I’ve heard about so far is troubling…
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Mitchell, Brian John – Worms #6 (with Kimberlee Traub)
July 1, 2010
Worms #6
And the spinning wheel of Brian John Mitchell comics lands on… Worms! Regular readers of this site and/or Brian’s comics know that the guy has a half dozen series (at least) that he’s working on at any given moment, usually with a few more that come out less frequently. “Less frequently”, in his case, still means more often than most comics that are the ONLY comic put out by other creators. He has an impressively prolific record, that’s what I’m trying to say. In this issue of Worms our heroine wakes up after having been eaten by a giant worm (not to be confused with the smaller worms that have been in past issues). She seems to have developed a rapport with the creature, so she leads it along with three other worms to attack the complex that has been holding her captive. Some serious mayhem, and it’s almost adorable on these tiny pages. There’s one thing that’s clear to me after reading all the issues (except #1) of this series: I still only have the vaguest idea of where this is all headed. I know that Lost Kisses is going to be self-contained stories of his lost loves, Just A Man is going to keep going until the hero learns what happened and gets his revenge/gets killed, but this one is so surreal that it feels like it could have ended a couple of times already, or it could just go on forever. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, just something I’ve noticed and haven’t been able to talk about due to my “no spoilers” policy. Anyway, as always this is worth a look, unless you haven’t read the other issues in this series, in which case it won’t make a lot of sense (but at least Brian is smart enough to put series recaps at the start of his comics). $.75
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Update for 6/30/10
June 30, 2010New reviews for Same Old Story “Vintage Shorts” by Nathan Wiedemer & Steven Mangold and Billy the Demon Slayer #2 by Hayden Fryer. See, I told you I’d get some extra reviews up this week, and there are possibly still more to come. Oh, and I also figured out that you can see the prices for the comics in the store if you highlight the area near “price”, which isn’t an ideal way to shop, but at least you can see the prices that way. And hey, I am offering original artwork from all sorts of people this week, with you being able to have a say as to which one I send you. I’ve also been told that it’s an easy fix to get the prices to show up again, so maybe it’ll be fixed soon. What I’m trying to say here is that the rewards for ordering comics this week are still greater than the hassle, so why not order some stuff?
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Fryer, Hayden – Billy the Demon Slayer #2
June 30, 2010
Billy the Demon Slayer #2
I’m torn on this one. On the one hand I would love to give a pass to the constantly wrong usage of “you’re” and “your”, “too” and “to”, but on the other hand that would make me a bit of a hypocrite. Ah well, so I’ll be a hypocrite. After all, the series is over with (this came out in 2006 and Hayden sent along the whole second series), so any advice I give about such things would be rather pointless. OK, how about this: Hayden, if you’re planning another series, please pass it too an English major or two to make sure that all the easy errors are fixed. There, problem solved! I still wish there was some kind of detailed series recap so I would know exactly what happened in the first series, but I’m hoping this will catch me up as I go along. Anyway, in this issue two mysterious figures are terrorizing the students, Billy gets in trouble at school, Billy meets up with Deadus (I’m very curious about their history, and if you were wondering, contrary to appearances on that cover, he does NOT give Deadus a noogie that I could see), Billy punches his evil twin, another student seems to be making this get all evil, and things end on a confusing cliffhanger. It’s a little odd that both issues so far have needed an afterword to explain what happened to people in the comic, as that sort of thing should make sense in the context of the comic itself. So far it seems like this series has problems, but the humor is infectious and I’m increasingly curious to see if this ends up making any sense. Worth a look, I think, but so far it’s mostly my love for bizarre humor and apocalyptic plots that are making me say that. $3.50
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