April 27, 2010
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All Waldo Comics
This is somebody who should have been one of the first people on my page. He’s one of the originals, one of the guys that you call “underground” instead of “alternative” or “independent” because they’ve been around so long. Christ, Art Spiegelman worships the man, and everybody who reads comics these days worships Art Spiegelman, so how good do you think that makes him? His Waldo comics are slightly similar to the Frank comics of Jim Woodring in that they both have a cat-like protagonist wandering around and getting into trouble, but that’s where the similarities stop. Except for the fact that they’re both extremely visual and at least slightly insane, that is. I don’t know how much convincing anybody would need to try one of his books. If you’re interested in the history of comics, you’ve probably already seen it and have made up your mind about it. If you’re completely new to comics, this isn’t the first thing that you’re likely to get. It’s amazing, groundbreaking stuff (you can see his influence all over the place), but nobody hopping onto the tiny comics bandwagon would start with one of the underground guys. Well, you should at least go back to him and check out a couple of his books. This one is a good one to start with because they’re all about Waldo. It’s cheap at $7.95 and has enough stories in it to give you a pretty good idea of what this guy’s all about. He absolutely packs the panels of his earlier stories full of stuff, you’d have to read them a few times just to get everything out of them. The later ones are a lot more business-like, more condensed and easier to get. The result of less drugs, maybe? Not that I want to say that all the great visuals came from the drugs, because he still did incredible work after the panels got simpler. Anyway, the man has a cheap library of stuff available. Sadly, it’s the kind of stuff that you can usually find in bargain boxes at comic stores, so do some hunting if you don’t feel like paying full price. I know there’s a store in Carbondale IL that has plenty of his comics…
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Almighty Then
Technically speaking, I can’t find a place online to purchase this comic. Well, I got mine through the recent big Poopsheet sale so maybe you can still find it there, but the websites listed above (while containing many other comics) don’t have this for sale. Just getting that out there right away on the off chance that there’s one person out there who buys every single book I review. Hey, you never know, right? This is the story of an intergalactic detective (you know, the one listed on the cover) who is given the assignment of finding out who blew up a cathedral and why. Luckily, he has a living witness, a holy man who was right next to the bomb when it blew up but escaped harm through prayer. Mayhem and the occasional bit of hilarity follow, as the two of them go on a bit of an adventure to figure the whole thing out. I’m still against the concept of spoilers even if the comic may well no longer be available, so it’s going to be hard to say much more without giving the ending away. I liked how Jason put a list of characters at the start of the book and then devoted a few pages to explaining them more fully at the back of the book. This looks like part of a much larger series, so although they didn’t do much good in a one-shot they probably do wonders to flesh out the bigger picture. It’s worth a look if you like space adventures and you like said space adventures at least mildly zany (see if you can spot all the references in this comic, as I’m sure at least a few of the zoomed over my head), then this is worth a look, or maybe this series as a whole is something you should look into. If not, well, there are many comics in the world, find some more to your taste. $2.50
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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School #1
Genuinely creepy comics are hard to come by. Which makes it even more of a wonderful surprise when you can find something out of the blue that fits the bill. This is the story of a girl who is brutally murdered and “wakes up” in a brand new school. Nobody can see or hear her, and most of this issue deals with her trying to come to terms with her new surroundings and watching the students going about their daily lives. Oh, and a whole bunch of the living people have their eyes sewn shut for some reason. I liked this a lot the whole way through, as it had a great vibe going, then the ending made me wonder if this is going to be another cheesy cliche horror comic. It’s impossible to explain that without giving the ending away, and giving the ending away is a horrible thing, so I’m not going to do that. Still, unbridled enthusiasm went to cautious optimism on the last few pages for me, which is the sort of thing that a #2 is bound to clear up… $3.50
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Spaniel Rage #1
This was put out (I’m guessing here by the dates on the pages) around the end of June and it’s already in a second printing. One look through this and you can see why. The art looks kind of rushed in places, like it was done sitting around a coffee shop or late at night, but there are certain books where that can help the feel of the whole thing. This is basically a daily diary type of thing from May 11th of this year to June 15th. She captures wonderfully the ridiculous things that happen in the course of the average day, and she has the ability to trim people down to a sentence or two and still make you feel like you know them. Subjects in here include getting hit on, talking about her butt, meeting Juan Valdez, watching bad tv, sleeping, the subway, and concerts. Like I said, it looks sloppy at times and there’s a lot of open space on the pages, but for whatever reason that just adds to the sense of this being a representation of a life. This is one of the better things I’ve read from SPX this year, and I’m already more than halfway through the pile. Check it out if you enjoy diary comics, I’m guessing it’s 2 or 3 dollars. Send e-mail!
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April 27, 2010
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Second Hand and Previously Used Troubletown
Here’s another one from the list of people who should have been up here from the beginning. For the span of about six months my local weekly paper had this strip, so I’m pretty far from an expert about it, but I like what I’ve seen a lot. It’s hard to read political strips from anywhere before 9/11 and not have them seem kind of silly, at least to me, but there are some quality strips in this one. Political incorrectness, apathy, carpal tunnel syndrome, Bill Clinton, angry senators… This is another guy who has a great website, so you can pretty much figure out for yourself if this is your thing or not. There’s a small mountain of his work to get through if you’re interested and just discovering it, so I’m kind of jealous. Here’s a couple of easy samples so you can get some idea, past that just check out his page.
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Bad Eggs #1
#1? That seems to imply that this is an ongoing series, and I don’t know if that’s legal in the world of 24 hour comics. Unless maybe he’s trying to get the “collector crowd” and is just calling this #1 to drum up interest that way, which would be pretty sad. Anyway, this is a fairly ugly comic, as you can tell from the cover, and his synopsis of his 24 hour day is not the usual frantic race to the finish line that these things usually are, as he spent time to sleep, eat and do other things in his allotted 24 hours. Luckily for him the story is a lot of fun, so the sloppy art doesn’t mean all that much. We’re not often treated to becoming a super villain as a second job, and it’s funny to see how the town is overrun with “capes” and their constant battles. The super villain (and hero) names are also fairly ridiculous, and it’s quite a crowd for them all being made up when the 24 hour time limit started. If you’re looking for a run down of the plot, well, it’s mostly chaos. How to get super powers, protecting a cousin and being thrilled to be beaten up by a famous villain are all in here. If you’re looking for the prettiest book on the block, forget this one. If you’re just looking for a good time and like to see the super heroes getting lampooned, you could do a lot worse than this. Here’s a website, it’s probably $2 because it’s massive…
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April 27, 2010
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Pop Gun War #5
This issue just goes to show that there’s no way to randomly pick the perfect issue in a store by somebody that you know nothing about. I think all 5 issues of this were available at a remarkable little comic store I went to in Yellow Springs OH (Dark Star Books) but I went with the latest issue to see how good he is right now, knowing full well that I might be lost in the story. Well, I’m going to take this as a stand-alone issue, even though it seems fairly obvious that there was some buildup to a lot of this. It’s a story about a puppeteer who wants to keep all the children of a dangerous city safe by forcing them to watch his show. Then there’s a boy with wings, a giant, a floating fish and a robot. Yes, it’s confusing, but it all holds together even without a back story. Visit his website, there are plenty of samples there of all 5 issues and links to order them. I think he’s also been in some Meathaus anthologies, I could swear that I’ve seen his artwork before…
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April 27, 2010
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Abe – Wrong for all the Right Reasons
You have no idea how much I needed this book today. Money problems, mostly, petty stuff that shouldn’t bother me as much as it does. This book showed (as many things do, if you look around) just how stupid it is to do anything but enjoy life. I’ve seen this book hailed as the book of the year, and I don’t see anything in this to argue with that statement. I’ve already read a lot of really great things this year and this has to be the best one. Abe is a character that Glenn created while he was in high school as the alter-ego of his “superhero”, Captain Oblivion. As he got older the cast of characters disappeared, but Abe remained, and Glenn has used him to express his philosophy about the world ever since. Here’s what Eddie Campbell has to say in his introduction, and I reprint it here because I couldn’t have said it better myself: “He’s arrived at a visual poetry, with the pictures distilled to deft strokes, playing the role of calligraphy.” I’ve called things pure poetry a few times before, and I’ve meant it every time, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a book where there’s so much to think about in every single panel. I had a smile on my face from the first page, and this is a thick book that will take up a very well spent afternoon sometime, if you sit down and enjoy it. I should also add that there’s no real continuing story here, just Abe in a variety of situations. The fact that it’s as good as it is without any real connecting thread shows just what a skill this man has. And most of the stuff is between 5 and 15 years old! There has to be a mountain of stuff out there from him to discover. Broke as hell or not, this book has put me in a fantastic mood. Now leave me alone, I’m going to drink some beer with my friends. Oh, and this was also probably the hardest book I’ve seen in terms of putting up samples, as there wasn’t much about this that I didn’t like, so here’s one of the short stories.
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Trixie: The Schizophrenic Girl #3
Kudos to Michael for sending a page and a half “autobiography” along with this comic, I rarely get a chance to get to know somebody that well before reading a book. If the rest of you are curious about the guy, well, that website up there looks pretty comprehensive to me. The heart of this book is about Trixie, but there are two other stories included. The first is about the revenge of the trees, which is exactly as it sounds: the trees, after years of being mistreated, rise up and bloom, attracting bees that kill all the people. Next is The Folk Singer, the story of an innocent young boy who gets transformed into a vampire, setting him off on a killing spree, until one day he just kind of quits. A good story, but it lost me at the end. Finally there’s the title character. Trixie has irritated her bandmates with her stardom, so they drop some acid in her coffee for revenge. This winds Trixie up in jail, only to have her eventually get her bloody revenge. I’m a bit torn on this one, as the art is fantastic, some of the best stuff I’ve seen in years. OK, sometimes the faces could use some work, but overall the shadows and vaguely tilted panels suit everything perfectly. Worth a look, that’s for sure, although Michael may want to rethink that idea of having the same cover for each of the three issues except with different shading… $3
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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California Dreamin
I swear, some of you people should warn me when I’m supposed to take a lot of drugs before reading your stuff. I got a few comics from Maja during the two weeks that I didn’t have internet access, so I’m just now getting the chance to write about it. The Systern and To Pee Or Not To Pee were wordless, meandering tales, The Systern being the better of the two as it wound its way along a bizarre path of blood and vomit. Hey, it makes sense if you read it. This one is almost a zine. It has different quotes and pictures mixed in with her dreams and a real life story or two. It’s interesting and raw. I like the art a lot too. Lots of solid blacks and such. If this is too vague for you, hey, I’ve done one review in the past two weeks. I’ll get back in the swing of things soon enough. All you need to know right now is that this is worth a look. It’s all over the place, so watch out if that’s not your thing, but if it is then this is intelligently done dream comics with an awful lot of snake imagery. E-mail her to see what else she has around…
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Hypertruck VI
This is the perfect comic. It’s the size of a regular comic, and the story is about hamsters running indie record labels and chickens controlling electronic music. Combine that with text pieces here and there such as “Dear Intergalactic Bounty Hunter” and “You Like Huey Lewis, Admit it!”, and you have the best comic in the world. Or maybe some of his earlier ones are better, I don’t know, I haven’t seen them yet. Back issues of this are the first thing I’m getting when I have a new address though, I’ll tell you that. Give him all your money!
Box 440422 Somerville, MA 02144-0006
Or maybe e-mail him first to see what he has around. According to this, #1-5 are available for $2 each, but this was done a few years ago: jef@highwaterbooks.com
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
Short Pants Press (publisher)
Grove of Fireflies #1: North Arrow Now Available! $3
How strange. The link for Drew goes nowhere, and the link for him at Short Pants Press goes to… tips for proper care of your cedar furniture. Hey, it’s linked up there, you never know who’s going to need that sort of thing. How about that comic? This is the first issue of a projected six issue series and, as always, kudos for being a bit ambitious in his first (?) time out. This is the story of a group of researchers in Ecuador who are looking for a mythical giant hippo. One of the researchers has a connection with the university that’s funding the whole thing, which explains why they’re able to keep getting money in the face of such an obviously silly expedition and the fact that the man in charge of it is openly hostile to the idea. In this issue a new member of the crew is added and we get to know the people involved in this expedition. Not a bad first issue, as I am curious to see what happens next, but we could have seen a bit more of them actually exploring. It’s a delicate balance, I know, but #2 should show these people out in the field a bit instead of just bickering. Also, and maybe this will make sense by the end of the series, but if you’re going to bother with a subtitle, by the end of the comic I should know what “North Arrow” means. It’s always possible that I just missed it and should hang my head in shame, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t explained here. It was intriguing at least, and worth a look to see where it goes from here. $3
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
Registry of Death
If you like gruesome images of violence and death without the fuss of much of a plot, then this one is for you. Maybe that’s a little harsh, or maybe I’m too quick to give the benefit of the doubt, you be the judge. The story opens with a man on the run from The Registry, which is a government group that controls who lives or dies. Gunfights and brutal battles follow, with the main problem being that I’m still not sure exactly why these people have to die. It’s in the story, sure, but what does this group have against them exactly? Are they just keeping the lists consistent and, if so, what’s the reasoning behind those lists? It’s a lot easier to hate hypothetical evil government figures if you have some idea of what they’re doing. Still, the artwork is gorgeous, it’s just too gory for me. Overall it didn’t do much for me, but it might be worth checking out if you enjoy this sort of thing…
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Tent City Tales #1
I love it when I get comics in the mail and have no idea what to expect. When I saw the cover I thought maybe it was a mystery or an adventure type thing (it was probably the gun), but what I got was a quiet, thoughtful couple of stories of people just trying to get by. The first one is about a man (homeless?) who gambles the last of his money away and wanders around the town. Sounds dull, I know, but I have a fascination for the quiet moments what most people either gloss over of ignore completely. Something about focusing on him jiggling the handle and trying to get a magazine for free that resonates for me. The second one was about a couple and them trying to make a living while the man won't allow his wife to work. That's where the gun comes into play, but I'm not going to tell you where. Another quiet story. The writing is solid if somewhat basic (it's not like the stories were overly complicated so that's not a knock on the guy) and the art was perfectly suited to stories. Eyes can tell a whole lot about what's going on and Shawn seems to understand that. Go to the website and look around, this one is $2.
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April 27, 2010
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White Stallion Comix #27
Really? Matt Corrigan isn’t already on this website somewhere? I see him on Dale Martin’s page briefly, but I could have sworn that I already had some of his minis around. Oh well, problem solved, I guess. This issue is in the middle a longer storyline, or least the main story is, so I’m bound to be a little bit lost. Still… I have no idea what’s going on in that cover. Anybody, a little help? There’s an alien (who we learn in the story is actually a human transformed into an alien (assuming that I read that part right)) poking a human in the nose with what looks like a knitting needle and… blowing up his nose? The man seems slightly alarmed, but not nearly alarmed enough at losing his nose. Nothing about it in the actual story, so it’ll have to remain a mystery for now. Anyway, the first story here is a stand-alone piece, about a bunch of kids coming back to school after the summer vacation. One of the students seems to have turned into an old man during the break, and seems unaware of this phenomenon until another student hands him a mirror, at which point his head explodes. But not really, as the summary at the end says that the student never remembered what happened to him and nobody ever mentioned it again. Um, zoom, right over my head. The bulk of the comic is taken up with the continuation of a longer story, so I’m just going to do my best, as it was an entertaining piece all by itself. The man on the cover is in a loony bin after reporting seeing aliens, but is let out after it happens that over 500 other people also reported seeing aliens, so maybe he isn’t as crazy as everybody thought. He promptly gets thrown back into the nuthouse after seeing a UFO after walking out the door, but manages to get a message by carrier pigeon to his transformed friend and another scientist. The transformed friend seems to have come across an alien tank, they bust him out of the nut house and begin the difficult process of changing the “alien” back to normal. Some funny stuff in there, and I genuinely loved the page I sampled below. Still, a brief summary of part 1 wouldn’t have hurt anything. It’s worth a look, but this looks like one of those series where you’d probably be better off if you just bought a pile of the minis and tried to make sense of them that way. $1.50
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Bunny Blues Leaves #3
Here's another case of me reading the first three issues of a series and bunching up the review into one book. Hey, it gets the point across and I can still update my opinion with future issues, right? Anyway, this is the story of Kit Jones deciding that she wants to go on tour with her guitar. She takes a road manager and a Head of Security who's in love with her. Her brother eventually decides that he wants to join them, and that's where this issue starts off. That and the important phone call from the end of #2 isn't addressed at all, but I'm guessing that it will have some importance later on in the series. Overall, this isn't a bad series, it's just that things seem to moving really slowly. The events are fairly scattered and I think Kit just got to her first gig at the end of the third issue. The "romantic interest" subplot is moving pretty slowly too. Oh, and I should mention that this is one of those anthropomorphic comics and that there's a really crappy bear on the last page of #3... sorry, it's a cheap shot but I couldn't resist. Altogether a series with potential. I like the dialogue and a lot of the art. It does look a bit rushed here and there, but that might be my nitpicking. It's $1.50 for the first two and $2 for #3, go to the website and look around. Also, he's the guy in charge of SPACE in Columbus apparently and everybody in the world should go to that, so check out info for that at the same website.
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Suckle: The Status of Basil
There are times when I can read a book from somebody who’s been around for a while and have my opinion about him or her change completely. I’d read an issue of Weasel by Dave Cooper a few years ago and, honestly, it didn’t do much for me. Whether that was the mood I was in at the time or if it was just a crappy issue is something that I don’t remember, but this book is amazing. It follows the adventures of Basil, a man who we see being born and who spends his days trying to find something that looks an awful lot like a vagina. There’s a lot more than that going on, of course. He gets used at every turn because of his innocence and an awful lot of the book is dedicated to pictures of vaginas, just so you know if you’re stupid enough to try and buy this for your little grandchild or something. The whole journey was riveting to me even though he didn’t really go anywhere, and I have to say that I like this art more than most stuff I’ve seen recently. Kind of a cross of Chester Brown and Jamie Hernandez maybe? I don’t know, but it looks just like a Dave Cooper drawing. Here’s a page. I’m listing the rest of his books because I’ll be getting them real soon. Most authors don’t hit me over the head like this, but I really want to read everything I can from this guy as soon as possible. Hey, feel free to e-mail the guy too. By the way, Amazon says that this book is out of print, so if they try to charge you some ungodly amount for this book, head on over to the Fantagraphics page (even though they don’t have it in their online catalog, they just put out a new printing) and pay cover price for it there.
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April 27, 2010
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The Happy Creek Elf
Right off the bat, I want to say that this was sent to me in a CD format, meaning that the only way I could read it was to use my computer. I was kind of holding off on reviewing anything other than printed comics until I felt that I had the printed field covered (I’m still a long way from that), but getting one in the mail changed my mind. All that being said, it’s possible that I’m a moron with computers and just don’t know how to make this one even, but I’m basing my review on what I saw and, frankly, it was a mess. By “mess” I don’t mean that the story was bad or nothing interesting happened, I mean it was just plain messy. For the first 20 pages or so especially I felt like I could take a red marker and change just about every sentence to make it grammatically correct. I know, my grammatical glass house is shattering around me, but I’m not putting out comics so I have a bit more leeway. It improved after that, but it still looked dirty. There were smudges everywhere, the text size (and panel size, but that might have been for story purposes) fluctuated wildly, and the art was very static. There were only a few panels where I thought the characters could possibly ever move. With all that negative, I do want to say that the story did improve as it went on. I was into it by the end, even if all the little technical details were still bugging the hell out of me. My advice to the man or woman who sent me this would be to work on the basics. That elf flying through the car window was great, as was the bit with the first trucker crashing off the road. Make me work for my bad review and cut out the stuff that’s easy for me to nitpick about. You can e-mail the author or visit the website to see what I’m talking about. This is the proposed first book in a series, so we should be seeing a lot more of them.
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Comixville #8
I’ve been meaning to give these guys all the credit in the world and just seem to keep forgetting about it. Comixville is done by four people (it says on the inside cover Gloria, Bonzi, T.S. and Greg, if that means anything to anybody) as well as an interviewer. This issue has a great interview with Ben Snakepit, about whom I know very little. I did like the one comic I did see, though. Other than that the book is a collection of short, concise reviews about mini comics. Ah, if only I could do the “concise” thing. I feel the need to ramble endlessly about nonsense throughout my reviews. Oh well. And if anybody thinks that I’m some sort of authority about comics because I have so many creators on the site, I’d like to point out a small fact about Comixville. Out of the 26 reviews and contact info they have, I have 4 of the individual issues, and only 7 of the people on my site. There’s a lot of work to be done before this site is an “authority” on comics, I just have a lot of people here. No e-mail address, but this is worth the trouble of getting some stamps and an envelope ready. Put a stamp in the envelope and send it to: Comixville P.O. Box 697 Portland, OR 97207-0697.
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April 27, 2010
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Old Timey Gunslinger Tales #2
Note: I am 99% certain that Abe Comis is NOT the name of the person who did this comic. In fact, I’m pretty sure that he just misspelled the name of his comics company, ABE comics, as that’s the e-mail address given. Still, if it’s not his name the a-hole didn’t bother to put an actual name on his comic, and I need to put something up there. I mean, sure, I could just skip this comic altogether, but how on earth could I pass something up with a title as wonderful as that? Especially when it only gets better on the inside. This is, exactly as the title implies, an old timey gunslinger tale. Actually, that should probably be “olde”, but what do I know. Inside is the story of a brave hero coming across an evil Frenchman who has a girl in a sack, a bomb and is at a railroad. Clearly, that’s a villain, and god bless “Abe” for putting the “boo, hiss” sound effects in the panel whenever the villain appears. The story goes exactly as you’d think it would, the villain gets his in the end and everybody lives happily ever after. Well, almost everyone, but I won’t ruin the joke at the end. The art is simplistic as can be, which suits this simple tale perfectly. I read this at the end of a long week and it’s exactly what I needed. Well worth a look, and if you do manage to track this guy (or, I suppose, gal) down, do me the favor of letting me in on their name, would you? $1
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