April 27, 2010
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Big Baby
Guess when the first of the stories collected in this book came out. Give up? It was 1983. 18 years ago, and I’m just now getting around to reading them. Most of the blame for that can be placed squarely on the shoulders of Fantagraphics, because this is a pretty thin book and it costs $25 (no softcover editions available). I usually don’t have that kind of money lying around for something that I’ve just heard great things about, but lately I’ve been buying a lot more stuff for the sake of this website (right, it’s all a sacred duty and I don’t get any enjoyment at all out of reading comics that I’ve been looking at for years). Well, if you have $25 laying around, this book is absolutely gorgeous. It’s a thing of beauty and intense craftsmanship and would look great on the bookshelf of anybody who enjoys comics. I’m going to have hunt down his other stuff now, which is another reason that I avoid stuff like this that I’ve heard about for years: having to catch up on all the stuff that I’ve missed.
What’s the book like? Well, picture all the old EC stuff like Tales From The Crypt (the 50’s comic, not the show, for the illiterates out there), except done really well. Sure, that old stuff had some charm, but you’d have a hard time convincing anybody that it was literature. This stuff is genuinely creepy and disturbing without being campy. This is all about the main character, who is called Big Baby, having little adventures. The adults never believe him and he has an overactive imagination, so he’s always on his own. That floating boy and his story was creepy as hell and is worth the price of admission. A main bone of contention is that there are only 4 stories in this book and one of them is only a couple of pages long. I realize that this packaging looks great, but this would have made a much bigger impact if it was affordable even to the average comic fan who wants to read it. One of those things that Fantagraphics doesn’t seem to get, or maybe they know a lot more than I do because they seem to be doing OK. Anyway, there’s another story called “Teen Plague” about Big Baby’s confusion between reading an old comic about aliens trying to take over the planet and his babysitter having a hickey in the shape of the wound that the aliens were making. Great stuff, especially when it turns out that something might be wrong with her and her boyfriend after all. The first story, Curse of the Molemen, deals with Big Baby seeing a man being dragged into a hole in his neighbor’s backyard and his trying to convince anybody that something is going on when all the adults think that the scary movie he watched is scaring him into seeing things. I wish he had done more of these, but now I have to pick up his series Black Hole, so maybe he got even better. I guess the bottom line here is that this is good stuff, but pricey.
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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The Long Walk Nowhere
Anybody out there ever go to high school? Yeah? Well,
did anybody out there think that high school was the most horrible
thing ever and that almost everybody who went there was a monster
and came from the worst upbringing imaginable? Maybe you
should read this book. I’ve never seen anything else by this
guy but I hope for the sake of the world that he’s either planning
on putting more stuff out or has stuff out that I’ve missed.
The mini is broken up into three parts. The first part shows
the sheer aimlessness of being a teenager, called “The Metal
Years”. The first thing I thought when I saw the pimply
faced teenager with the hair over his eyes was, of course,
“Hate” by Peter Bagge. Almost didn’t pick it up for
that reason, and I’m certainly glad that I did. This part
arguably works the best, if for no other reason than that it’s so
quiet and you can just fill in the blanks for yourself about what
this kid is thinking.
The second part is called First Girlfriend and I imagine would be
easy to relate to whether you’re male or female. Assuming that
everybody can remember your first girlfriend/boyfriend, and who the
hell can forget that? The other parts of the book allow at
least a little bit of darkness to creep in, but not this part.
It perfectly shows the confusion of this poor boy as he tries to
figure out what he’s supposed to do with a girlfriend. The
third part is mostly the author wandering his neighborhood and
thinking to himself about the town and the times gone by, as he’s 26
and completely aimless, like the rest of the world. Well, the
part that I know, anyway. It’s rare that I can unreservedly
recommend every part of a mini that is split up into a few parts,
but that is the case with this comic. It’s all good. Buy
it.
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April 27, 2010
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Epidermolysis Bullosa Narcissus
Yes, in case anybody is wondering, that’s a real condition, and you can Google it if you want the technical definition. Or you could order that book from that e-mail provided, but I’m not supposed to tell you to buy this book until later in the review. Must follow the reviewer code, don’t you know. Anyway, this is the angry screed of Charles to the world, in which he describes his lifelong medical condition to the world. To boil it down, because his dumbed down description is the best: his skin is essentially just like the skin that forms on gravy if you let it sit out too long. It’s that sensitive, meaning that he can’t do all sorts of things, has constant blisters and sores from where anything has touched him, and essentially lives his life in constant pain, with no potential for a cure and very little hope for anything but a life of amputations and more pain. This is an especially wordy book, as Charles has a lot of ground to cover and only 16 pages to do it, but it’s amazing how impressive the artwork is considering he draws his hands and, in case you can’t see them clearly from the cover, they’re essentially clubs from his condition. He has a few other books listed and I’d love to see them after reading this; there’s a serious brain at work here and I’d love to see what else he has to say. This is only $1, well worth hunting down.
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Dream Girl
So what happens if you wake up one day to find a giant supermodel in your bedroom who’s madly in love with you? Sure, you’d like to have sex with her, but, anatomically speaking, how? What would you feed her? Should you take her out on the town? Those are some of the problems that the main character in this comic is faced with. It was originally a slide show, which must have been pretty cool to see, but it translates pretty well into a comic. He manages to throw a message or two in and even gets a reference to King Kong in. Great concept, simple, charming art, check it out if it’s still even available. E-mail the guy, here’s hoping he’s still around doing comics as this was put out a couple of years ago for $3…
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April 27, 2010
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Anytown
One of these days you’re just going to get an apology from me because I’ve thrown this stupid scanner out the window… Anyway, here’s another pretty good find from SPACE. I’m just about the least “street” person that you’re likely to meet, but I still related to the tales of the kids trying to find ANYTHING at all to do for fun that didn’t involve drinking or drugs. The art’s solid, even if things get so frantic in the last couple of pages that I still don’t fully understand what happened at the end. The eyeballs are just kind of… off at time too, but that’s probably just me being picky again. It’s a couple of bucks and Meghan even offers to send you a sample CD of her playlist for the comic if you send her an e-mail…
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April 27, 2010
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Haw!
This book was doomed from the start. Right after I heard that Ivan was putting out a big book full of one panel strips and jokes, I decided that it was going to be the best thing ever. Nothing less than that would have satisfied me, and that’s a pretty hard thing to live up to. This isn’t a bad book by any means. There’s plenty of the requisite Brunetti humor and disgusting stuff that you can’t help but laugh at. BUT (and you knew that was coming), it’s not the best thing ever. In fact, any single issue of Schizo is probably better than this. It’s probably around 80 pages of gag strips, mostly one panel per page. There’s just not enough bang for your buck (and it is pretty cheap at $8.95) here. I was expecting more of everything, a dense tome of goodness that would take me a night to read. Instead it took about 10 minutes. Still, if you like Ivan you’ll like this book. You just won’t like it as much as you thought you would.
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April 27, 2010
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A Complete Lowlife
For my money, this was the best series around to represent the aimlessness of our generation when it first came out in 1991. There were a lot of people trying to do what he was doing, but nobody was doing it as well or as honestly as he was. I haven’t read this series in years (as he’s since gone on to doing mostly mediocre stuff for Vertigo but, to be honest, I haven’t read more than a fraction of it so I shouldn’t talk too much shit), so I’m not going to comment on it now other than to say that it was one of my favorites back in the day.
NOTE (4/23/10) I’m leaving this as it was written because of how ridiculous it looks now. Back then Ed was just a guy struggling to make the transition from independent/sort of autobio stuff to the mainstream. Since then, of course, he’s killed off Captain America (and, as far as I know, brought him back) and become a well-known and successful writer of mainstream comics. Good on him!
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April 27, 2010
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Thunder Island #1
The problem with all the whiny autobio comics about love and missed opportunities in the lives of artists is that it usually focuses on the same period, roughly from high school to some point in their 20’s. Tim decided to get an early start on all that with this comic and detail the early loves of his life from the first through third grade. Actually, it’s a little iffy to even call this a comic, as the sampled image below is as much of an illustration as you’re going to get on any given page. Many of them have no illustrations at all. So does that make this a zine, technically? Ah, definitions like that give me a headache. He sent this to me for potential review, I run a site about small press comic books, so this is a comic. It’s easy when I can change the rules when it suits me. One other technical note: as this is primarily text, it would have been nice if he had proofread a bit more, as words are inserted or crossed off fairly regularly. At least he kept the spelling errors to a minimum. There’s also some confusion right off the bat when he says on the third page that he had no interest in girls, then spends the rest of the comic talking about how he had crushes from an early age and how most of his memories from that period involve girls and not his guy friends. Anyway, there are some funny moments of discovery about himself, some surprisingly detailed memories of various people and events of that time, and a hilarious way to deal with bullies that want to confront you in the bathroom. The only trouble with this is that, as it was written by an adult, there are times when it feels like child Tim has the confidence of adult Tim. It’s a minor thing though, as his detailed memories of most of the things about this time of his life (there are some gaps, as is natural) makes this a fairly compelling read. No price listed, but going with the “fancy cover” rule I’ll say it’s $4.
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April 27, 2010
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Dream Logic #4
Is it too early for a new year’s resolution? How about this site starts spending a lot more time looking at the work of people who operate outside of this country next year? I’ve been having my eyes opened in a big way recently (Robert goes to school in Gloucestershire), and it’s not like these people are easy to track down over here. This is one of those cases where the “and much more” blurb on the cover has some serious truth to it, as this comic is chock full of mostly short pieces about all sorts of things, some fictional, some not so much. On the fictional side Robert tells tales about a crazed millionaire mogul, the lull after death and before whatever happens next, a young woman who buys a train ticket to anywhere, and a cynical yet naive young girl losing her virginity. Oh, and of course there’s the silent story of Sid, a man whose desperate attempts to get a flower for a pretty girl get him in serious trouble. On the autobiographical side of things there’s the story of Robert adjusting to life away at college, an old irrational fear of his about a demon dog, and his grandfather talking to him about an old toy that used to take three days to make but was only good for a few minutes. And, like all great anthologies, there are other little pieces scattered about, including both sides of the back cover, but why spoil all the surprises for somebody who wants to pick this up? And as for the art, good lord was it gorgeous. I never expect perfection from students who send me comics (hey, it’s an experimental time of life, few people have everything nailed down that early), but Robert has some serious talent. Lush backgrounds all over the place, a lock on all kinds of facial expressions (as silent stories never work unless the story can be told through faces), plenty of goodness to be found here. This is going for about $3.55 in US dollars at the moment (12/20/07), but feel free to e-mail the man to check on that total, the way the dollar is dropping…
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April 27, 2010
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Cash & Carry
Who doesn’t like a good mystery/thriller? You know, the kind of thing where you don’t know where everything is going, where you’re not sure who is the good guy and who is the bad guy (assuming they’re even good and bad and not just various shades in between), where even a happy ending isn’t going to seem all that happy? If that’s you, you’re in luck, as this is a damned near perfect graphic novel. Things start off with two couriers being told that they have to deliver a briefcase carrying a unspecified disk (kids, this is called a McGuffin, Hitchcock used it all the time). One of them has the disk in their case, the other is carrying nothing, as the people in charge are expecting someone to try and take the disk. The thing is, unknown to either of the couriers, there is nothing in either of their cases and the disk was actually delivered the previous week. The mysterious men in charge set the whole thing up to flush out a mole in their midst and decide to let the couriers continue when their cover is blown to see who reacts well under pressure. This is the only bone I have to pick with the story: it would have been a better reveal to have the cases end up empty at the end rather than know it all along. I think anyway, and I am the one rambling here, but the rest of the story is so good that I forgot that minor point by the time I finished the story. The main character, David Diangelo, has experience with this sort of thing, while the other courier, known as Duke, is pretty new to it all and mostly just wants to collect his fee. They find out quickly that they’re being watched, as Duke is attacked at his airport (Midway) and rushes to David’s airport (O’Hare) to warn him. I’m already in danger of saying too much, as nobody likes to have their mystery ruined, but the rest of the book is all about running, trying not to be tracked (and this includes using only cash and not touching their phones or the internet) and trying to figure out who is after them and why. OK, they end up learning that last part pretty early on, but all the nuances of who did what when and why remain mysteries right up until the end. In case it isn’t crystal clear yet, I loved this book. The man can write and draw a mean thriller, and it’s always at least mildly impressive to me when a graphic novel just demands to be read all at one sitting.  Tim has a fair amount of samples up at his website, including what appears to be his latest graphic novel serialized online, so you can certainly do your research on his stuff for free. THEN you can buy this, as I’m sure the man would be happy if he made a tiny bit of money even with all the free samples. Check it out, it’s the first thing in a while that reminds me of Stray Bullets in its heyday. $12.99
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April 27, 2010
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Frayed Ends #3
This is one of those comics where it’s hard to say too much about it until the story is over. So, at the risk of sounding like an idiot yet again, I’m not going to let that stop me. The story here is that Paul is a broken man after his long-time girlfriend leaves him, telling him that she never loved him. This is four months after the break-up, mind you. Anyway, he mopes about, stopping for a brief conversation with his female friend Jelayne… and then the series stops being ordinary at all. That’s all in #1, I’m just going one issue because I’m lazy. Paul suddenly sees his imaginary friend from childhood, Edward, and Edward takes him to on trip to find his (Edward’s) heart. By the time this whole thing gets to #3 Jelayne is missing, a mysterious man named Argo has been sent to find her, Paul catches up with his ex and Edward knows where his heart is. What’s remarkable about this series is the imagery. There are floating televisions all over the place in this alternate land that Paul ends up in, along with a robot mayor and a proposition to ban the carrying of concealed sticks. There seems to be a lot planned in this series, which is a good thing, but I can’t find any reference to #4, the last issue of the series. Looks like the website hasn’t been updated this year, and that’s never a good sign. My main problem with this series is that everything, in the first issue at least, seems to happen way too fast. Jason may be fixing that by slowing down and addressing the many strange things that happen, but it’s impossible to tell if he’s going to do that in a satisfactory way until it’s over. A good visual series, at least, and the story is great up to now, as long as the ending doesn’t ruin anything…
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Sucks To Be You!!
Well, this entry in the pile o’ 15 minutes comics wins a few prizes: ugliest and done in the quickest amount of time. It’s hard to say that a 15 minute comic looks rushed, as that’s kind of the point, but I’m still not sure what about a third of the dialogue is here. It’s the story of an old man who wants his body cryogenically frozen, it works and he ends up in heaven. But be careful what you wish for! It’s not a bad little story, all things considered, but man is it brutal to look at. Not enough to sour me on the rest of the issues in this bunch, and not enough for me to demand the 12 seconds of my life it took to read this back. Of course, it could just be that the art here is at such a transcendent level that I just can’t fathom it properly, as is the case with all comics I don’t like.
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April 27, 2010
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In Anticipation of Hugs: A Sock Monster Collection Now Available! $4
Ah, if only all minis with one panel strips were like this. I’ve had my issues with the single panel format, but this is how it’s supposed to be done, and there’s also the not insignificant fact that there are plenty of free samples up at Neil’s website, so anybody reading my rambles can easily make their own informed decision. It’s a simple idea but done to perfection: there’s a rotating cast of characters, centered around the sock monster also including a wise old skull, a inquisitive and slightly naive bug, a nasty and selfish… um, luchador, a guy with a present embedded in his head… You know, they start getting surreal in a hurry, so I’ll leave it up to the reader to discover the rest of them. These friends and not friends mostly sit around, ruminating about the universe or the unfairness of various aspects of the universe, then go on to the next panel. It’s funny, that lettering is downright hypnotic, and there’s some serious inking going on. A lot of one panel strips rely on characters sitting mostly in a blank environment, but Neil clearly spends a solid chunk of time on each panel. This is well worth your time to seek out, proving once again that Short Pants has a damned near perfect track record in publishing quality comics. $4
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April 27, 2010
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Yearbooks (with Shaun Feltz & Raighne Hogan)
Technically this should probably be on the Various Good Minnesotans page, but as it’s mostly the work of Nicholas (as artist and one of two writers), he gets his own page! Besides, all those various folks from Minnesota are all going to be doing their own solo work soon, if they’re not already, so why not start giving them all their own pages now? Before I even get into the story here, I have to say that the art is absolutely gorgeous. Nicholas uses the silences of his characters beautifully to convey emotions that would take him pages of exposition and Raighne nails the drabness of high school while still managing the vibrancy of the students and the general high school art world. As for the story, it’s the tale of a young high school student as he tries to navigate the hallways and avoid getting beat up, learn something from a wise art teacher (but one who’s reluctant to show his own work), and deal with his feelings, whatever they are, for an attractive female friend. It’s all tied together by a dream Ryan as he imagines a younger class, all doing their bleak and honest art projects, which causes their teacher to turn into a literal moonbat. In the meantime there’s Ryan trying to learn the basics from his art teacher while coming to the sudden realization that the guy, his expertise notwithstanding, is a bit of a creep. No, I can’t say more without ruining the comic. There are many books that go back to the high school years in sort of a perfunctory way, dealing with the actual events but without managing to capture the mood. The whole art team does that beautifully here, as Ryan knows that minding his own business is not enough to avoid confrontations, his female friend struggles basically alone to grow up while being young, gorgeous and a loner, and the whole book beautifully illustrates that the only person you can count on in high school is yourself. Another great comic from this crew, here’s hoping that they stick with their anthology while managing to put out great projects like this. I wouldn’t have guessed Minnesota to be one of the places that could legitimately be called the future of comics, but if these people keep this up they might well get there. $13
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Bainst #4
Disclaimer: this book is from 1997 (it’s 12/13/03 right now). However, I got it at SPX this year, so I’m guessing that means it’s still available and the e-mail address is current. This is a pretty fat book for $2, which is another good indication that it’s old. There are a bunch of stories in this one, the largest of which is an argument between two friends about why eating and having sex is just being a slave to your impulses. It’s an interesting story that’s done well. The second biggest story is the one about the little girl meeting the aliens, which was entirely too cute to be in a mini comic with “adult” themes. Other than that there were a few short pieces about chess and a cockroach trying to find enlightenment. Overall it was a good a hodge-podge of stuff, a nice representation of his work all in one package, I have to add that he’s probably gotten better over the years, which makes me confused as to why I haven’t seen more of his stuff. Either that or he’s disappeared completely and I happened to find that last issue of his comic in existence, in which case I’m sorry I wasted your time with a review. Check out the website, maybe it’s still there too…
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April 27, 2010
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Howdy Pardner
I feel like I’ve just been dipped in sugar. Honestly, I’ve seen a lot of cute comic books in my day, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything cuter than this. Is that a good thing? Well, not really. Not for me, anyway. I don’t know what your tastes are like. Put it this way: if you like watching Comedy Central all hours of the day and enjoy all the things on that channel that serve no other purpose than to be cute, go ahead and buy this. It’s done well, it just wasn’t something that I enjoyed. It’s the story of a cowboy (yes, his name really is “Howdy Pardner”) who tries to talk some ghosts out of haunting the house of a scared lady. They are singing ghosts, and he approaches them the only way he knows how: by singing! It’s drawn well though. I guess the closest thing I can think of to relate this to would be an Archie comic. Kids would probably love this. I can’t get his homepage to work, but my connection is temperamental, so you might want to give it a shot. Other than that, e-mail him because he says in his book that he’ll give out free stuff to people who say “hi”. Once you get some free stuff you can figure out for yourself if you want more…
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April 27, 2010
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Adolescent
Here’s another random pickup from SPACE ’07, and I’ve rarely seen a more descriptive cover. Right off the bat Tony goes away from the traditional image and jumps right into things. He’s entirely too hard on himself in the intro on the front inside cover, going on about how critics and naysayers have essentially prevented him from doing anything for the past two years without seeing it as total crap right off the bat. As one of the naysayers (not on this issue but in general) let me just say this: it’s absolutely insane to see all your work as worthless for two years because of people like me. Seriously, I read the books, try to come up with something remotely informative and entertaining about them, without giving too much away, and go on with my life. Hell, I often forget what I said about somebody on the website when I meet them at a con. This is a long way of saying it, but I’m trying to say worry about your own work and not what anybody else thinks about it. Chances are you have some idea of what constitutes quality work all on your own anyway. So, how about that comic? Lots of random shorties in here. There’s the question of who you are if you aren’t represented by family, interests and work. Then Tony, after one rejection letter too many, decides to do the most formulaic story possible, involving big guns, big tits and fist fights… before the main character, Massive Fist, has a problem with the whole thing. He also deals with the morality of jumping into dunes (knowing that he’s adding to their natural erosion), coming home after long absences, O.C.D. pants, and a nice bit of filler at the end involving much punching. I thought it was pretty funny stuff all around, and here’s hoping that he puts out stuff on a more regular basis from now on. $3
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Scenes From Gay Bars
Here’s another of the Shiot Crock #11 comics (found around here somewhere in the forums), and I’m still not sure if I should review them completely as their own separate comics or as part of a larger whole.This one is, as that title might indicate, scenes from a gay bar. Sketches of faces, conversations, the odd butt here and there, a barely heard conversation. It’s a fascinating wordless little book, but it’s sloppy as can be (as it is all taken from a sketchbook, probably in a darkened bar) and probably not that great of a book taken on its own. Taken as part of the greater whole of Shiot Crock though, it’s a great addition. It’s possible that that doesn’t make any sense at all, but believe me, it’s all perfectly clear in my head. I’d like to see something by Shane that wasn’t done in a sketchbook, just to check out a less sketchy version of his art. So what’s the conclusion to all this rambling? So-so book on its own, unless you’re a real big fan of sketch art, but it complements the greater anthology that is Shiot Crock quite nicely…
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April 27, 2010
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Evil Head That Can’t Shoot Worth A Crap
Absolutely awesome. Far and away the best of the bunch of 15 minute comics, even if I have said that for other comics in this series, THIS one is really the best. The art is terrible, the lettering is barely legible and it’s still nothing but awesome. Why? Well, for one thing you can tell the whole story of the book just by reading the title, and that’s always helpful. Then you have one of the best representations of the planet Earth ever committed to paper. Wrap that all up with the fact that it’s quite possible that this comic was done in less than 5 minutes, let alone 15, and you have the best comic of the bunch. As for the whole set, is it worth your time/money? Well, let’s throw the time consideration out of the way right now, because you could read this whole thing in about 5 minutes. As for money, yeah, money is always an issue, but if you like Young American Comics in general and wonder what they would be like under extremely odd circumstances, then you can’t really pass this up, now can you?
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Warde Thang #3
I’m breaking with tradition here in a big way. Usually with reviews I try to describe the comic I just read, however briefly, in my ramblings about whatever else is on my mind as I’m writing these reviews. Today, with this particular comic, no explanation is necessary. There’s almost no story here, at least that I can tell, and Ryan seems to have only the most basic grasp of spelling. Still, this is the funniest thing I’ve seen from FLUKE, and one of the funniest things I’ve seen in comics ever. Go to his website, if you still don’t trust me to lead you to funny things, or if maybe you don’t think this is funny, you soulless shell of a person you. I’d guess this is $2, but I would pay just about any price for this. Absolutely a unique experience.
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