April 27, 2010
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The Veil #1
I usually don’t review books that were done 6 years ago, but I did get this at the last convention I went to, so I’m kind of hoping that he’s still doing comics and that his contact info is still current. Anyway, I think this is one of those cases where you can judge a book by its cover. The story has “goth” written all over it, which can be a good thing or a bad thing in my experience. The art here was incredible. I really liked how everything was full. Busy panels all over the place are NEVER a bad thing in my mind. The problem was that there were three stories in here, all of which were pretty melodramatic and silly. It reads just like a first attempt at a comic, but luckily it was done so long ago that it probably is a first attempt at a comic and I’m sure his stuff has gotten better since then. For $2.50 there’s really not much here, unless you just want to look at the pictures. Still, he could have some serious talent, so write to him to see what else he’s been up to: P.O. Box 542 Lapeer, MI 48446.
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Illegal Pets
Just in case you guys thought I was going to love all of the Mini Burger stuff, here’s one that I don’t like at all. I looked at the web page so I could try to figure out what this guy had going for him, and there are actually some really good pictures up there. I don’t speak the language (French?) so I couldn’t tell you what’s going on , but there are some genuinely haunting images on his page. This mini, however, is just a series of portraits with dicks in them. And the pictures are just a mess. Sorry, but sometimes less is more with art and I think that’s true most of the time. There’s so much extraneous background material that it takes some serious studying to see what’s going on, and when you do it’s more of a “huh” reaction than anything else. Hardly worth the effort but, as always, there are probably people out there who will love this. Anyway, at least check out his page because there’s some great stuff there.
Chris Staros over at Top Shelf told me that although the Mini Burger set isn’t available on the web page, you can still order it through their online catalog. Just go to the ordering page, click on #4 at the bottom (additional comments) and write in that you want the Mini Burger set for $19.95. They have it in stock, they just haven’t updated the site in a while. From what I’ve read, it’s worth it. There might be two bad ones in this bunch and a couple of mediocre ones, but the good ones are good in ways that you don’t usually see in this country.
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Chuck The Ugly American Book Two: Bootleg
Where do I begin? With the ridiculous, infantile pro-American rant that manages to raise a good point or two but is mostly just silly? With the truncated, taken-out-of-context quote from Matt Groening on the back of the book? How about the overall stupidity of the book itself? Sorry, but this was hard to read. I always try to say something positive about books that I review, even when I think that there’s no redeeming quality to them at all, so here goes: I could see where some people in the world would think that a few pages of this book would be funny. That’s the best I can do. How many times can the main character say “My butt itches” before it stops being funny? What’s that you say? It wouldn’t be funny even once? If that’s your opinion, you’re going to want to steer clear of this. This is the story of Chuck, who seems to be a thinly veiled Hulk clone with a slightly more angry attitude. He goes along with some friends to find something or other in the rain forest… yeah, it’s vague, but it was painful to read this and I’m not going back to check. The group splits up, they lick toads, the women come in to save the day, he rips off a couple of ten year old Simpsons jokes, and that’s it. E-mail him to see if he has anything available if you want to, or you could just turn the computer off and punch yourself in the face a few times, it might be less painful…
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Dave B vs Little League Umpire
No, the lettering isn’t that sloppy throughout the comic. There is, however, a big problem with the copies, so letters fly off the top of the page or the side in some cases. And Dave has a problem with “they’re” vs “their”, which I know is probably only awful to me, but I’ll keep pointing that kind of thing out until everybody does it right. See, the reason I point out these “little things” is that they had the cumulative effect of really dragging this comic down, taking it from something that I would show to friends to just another sloppy mini. It’s a damned shame too, because the underlying story here, about how Dave gives up soccer for baseball as a kid and has to deal with theatrical umpires, is genuinely funny. It probably would have been even funnier if so many words weren’t chopped off. Still, it’s obvious that there’s some real talent here, he just has to work the bugs out through a few more comics. It’s hard to tell with these things, as more people quit comics after making a few than stick with it, but keep an eye out for this guy, as he could very well have big things in him. Yes, it’s possible that I’m gushing too much from one comic, but please permit me my occasional gushiness…
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Thief: The Adventure of John Argent #4
This is one of those cases where you really can judge a book by its cover. If you like decent, straightforward adventure stories, you’d probably find something to like in this series, at least based on this one issue. If you like your stories a bit meatier or complex, or possibly just don’t like adventure stories, it’s best to move along. That’s not to say that this might not be complex, it’s just that it’s hard to see that from this one issue. In here we have the thief cheating some people at dice, which leads him to escape into a blizzard. He finally finds a cottage and, near death, stumbles inside. It turns out that the people inside have more on their minds than helping a stranger, and yes, that axe on the cover does come into play. It’s an OK story with decent art, and it’s a story that may end up going somewhere or it may just be a series of madcap adventures that this thief finds himself in. This is from 1998 though, it’s possible that there’s a wide range of stories available now to flesh things out, although I couldn’t find out for sure online. $1
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Soap Opera Now Available! $2.75
If you think you can take one look at that cover and tell what the book is going to be about, you’re probably wrong. Here, try it out. Take a look at the cover. Think about the inside. What are you picturing? It’s about a young woman who watches a soap opera, that much is true. Her life has changed considerably in recent years because all of her friends have left to go to school and she’s still stuck in the same old town. One of her only sources of comfort is her soap opera, with its constant themes and cliches. Still, there’s one character that lights up the screen for her, making everyone else on the show look even worse in comparison. Megan, the main character, despairs when she sees her favorite character about to be reduced to a bit player, and the rest of the book is about this and Megan trying to fit in with the new friends of her childhood friend. If this is her first book it’s phenomenal, if it’s not it’s still a really great book (but it would make more sense if she’d already done a few comics to explain this one). The art is great and there’s a constant sense of Megan drifting away and trying to find something solid to cling to. It’s $2.75, here’s the website and I think this is worth checking out.
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Bixtone Productions #2
Is “meh” an acceptable review? No? OK, fine, I’ll elaborate. This is mostly a series of “funny” stories, their length being either a page or half a page, with a few pages of sketchbook material thrown in. It should be pretty well established around here by now that I hate spoilers, so I won’t say exactly how these strips end, just the pattern. Fair enough? Pissing, head exploding, smashing, smacking, smashing, pissing mistaken for taking a dump. I’m leaving out the stories dealing with school as they were the funniest of the bunch, if incomprehensible at times and more than a touch derivative of Evan Dorkin. In the afterward Kevin mention the fact that this took him 30 days to put together (probably for a con or something, as those rush jobs rarely look good after the fact), so that’s sort of an excuse. The bottom line is that there’s just not a whole lot here to recommend. Maybe #1 was better, maybe future issues picked up on some of the promising bits here and ran with them, but #2 is completely skippable. $3
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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A Moment of Clarity Book 1
If you’ve read enough of this website, you’ll know that I’ve talked before about the line with all-ages comics between being adorable in a good way and being so adorable that start to feel a bit nauseous after a few pages. The art in this one, unfortunately, is an example of the latter case. Every character perpetually looks like they’ve been hit right between the eyes (if any of them had any space between their eyes, I guess) with a 2X4. As always, this is just the way I see it and I’m sure plenty of people find this level of cuteness perfectly acceptable. It’s meant to be an all-ages book too, so a certain level of cuteness is acceptable. I just thought it went way over that line. OK, enough about the art. What about the rest of the comic? Well, that contributes more than a little bit to the cuteness factor, but not too terribly much. It’s all about an 11 year old as he deal with siblings, girls, school, dealing with a bully and being a bully himself. I don’t think I would have been able to call my parents “Mommy” and “Daddy” at that age to my friends without getting teased mercilessly, but maybe John grew up in a different time. All in all a decent book, probably a lot better if you have children and/or aren’t quite as cynical as I am… $8
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April 27, 2010
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Big Funny #1
Oh sure, I could shrink that image down and make this page nice and pretty. I choose not to because this comic is so vast that you need some visual representation, and it also serves as a handy explanation for why there are no samples from individual strips: this thing is too damned big for it. This is a collection of newspaper-style comics, done in a newspaper-style format, with one notable exception: these are actually funny. Kudos to these people (who are, it should be mentioned, mostly from Minnesota, or at least the planners seem to be) for being the first to send me a comic in a poster tube, or whatever those things are really called. There’s a huge variety of strips in here, from parodies of early newspaper strips to “where are they now” versions of those strips to what appears to be honest homages to those strips. Then there are a very few autobio strips, some gag strips (again, which are almost all funny), and one particularly memorable example of breaking the fourth wall. Contributors include (but are not limited to, as this is 48 pages) Ryan Dow, Henry Chamberlain, Paul Fricke, Kevin McCarthy, D.C. McNamara, David Sandberg, Steve Mason, Stephanie Mannheim and Jenny Schmid, to pick a few names randomly. Leaving aside the comics for just a second, I also enjoyed the actual newspaper articles, such as the one where they discussed who exactly killed the print medium, and they also did a great job with the classified ads in the back. Highlights include (but are in no way limited to) Jesse Gillespie’s Little Emo in Slumbaland, Daniel Olson’s circular strip Hey Rube, Kevin Cannon’s Army Men (the second comic I’ve read today to mention an ankylosaurus), Kirk Anderson’s Banana Republic (about keeping torture light), Andy Singer’s strip about wealth redistribution called Middle Management, Madeline Queripel’s brilliant strip about how the old serials would just use the last panel of the previous strip as the first panel of the new strip to keep readers caught up, Kevin McCarthy’s creepy funnies (apparently breaking the rules of good taste for the strip, but it was worth it), and a good old fashioned donnybrook by Lonny Unitus. I put a “#1” next to the title more because I’d like to see more of these than anything else. It’s a remarkable achievement, and if anybody is going to be in Minneapolis on August 7th you should click that website for details on picking up a copy. If you get one there, it’s a measly $5 for this beast. If not you’ll have to pay for shipping, which just about doubles the price, but this thing is utterly unique in the comics world and worth the expense. I’m old enough to remember pulling the funnies out of the Sunday paper, spreading them out on the ground, laying down to read them and have them actually be funny. Of course, it’s possible I only thought they were funny because I was a kid, but thanks to them for giving me a good reason to relive that experience. I didn’t even know I was missing it. $5
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April 27, 2010
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Amy + Jordan Sketch
What a wonderfully unique and bizarre book. The main problem with my putting it up here is that I haven’t been able to see it anywhere for less than $40, and that’s a bit much, but it really is something else. Here’s the link for the stuff I could find, anyway, and here’s the website for the guy. What’s the book about? Mostly two people living together who are always depressed. That might not seem like much fun, unless you’ve already read Steven or countless other underground strips. I’m guessing that these were all in a newspaper of some kind years ago. This guy has been around forever, as he was in the old Raw books, among many other things. The only problem I had with the book was that the binding was done horribly and a lot of the stuff in the middle of the pages was lost. Whatever, this review is all over the place, but this is a hell of a book, if you can find it. Strips include the little men who live inside street lamps and keep them lit, hamburgers shaped like individual people, a depressed head on a platter, and Amy’s son getting cracked open like an egg and having the children eat his brains. Good stuff, pretty much all the way through. As the book is so expensive, I thought it was only fair that you get a good number of samples so you’ll know if it’s something you’d like. Aren’t I just the nicest reviewer ever?
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Daucus Carota
Note to aspiring comic artists: please don’t take four years drawing, re-drawing and re-re-drawing your comic before putting it out. Sure, you may end up with something that looks as incredible as this book, but at the end of the day you’ve spent four years on a mini comic when your better alternative would have been to put out the book as you made it the first time and hate it for all time while working on improving your craft with other books. That’s my opinion anyway, I am well aware of the desire of the artist to achieve the unachievable: perfection. This book really is stunning in every way, with gorgeous splashes of color (making even more of an impact because most of the book is in black and white), and a downright mesmerizing fight scene. This is a silent book (which, as Brandon says in the afterward, just kind of ended up that way) involving that giant rabbit creature on the cover taking on some ninja monkeys. Yes, you read that correctly: ninja monkeys. Maybe he has a different term, but any monkey that has whittled a bone down into a long sword is a ninja monkey in my book. I’m not entirely clear on their disagreement, but it seems to boil down to a carrot vs. banana argument. As I said, every page of this book is phenomenal. It almost looks like he could have spent four years on this thing; the level of detail is just that great. This sample should convince you, if it doesn’t there are more at that website linked above, but you should know that it isn’t a proper website, more of a showcase for art from the comic. $5
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April 27, 2010
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Last Wish #2
It’s probably best to start this off with a warning: this comic, the second in a projected six part series, came out in 2002. The website hasn’t been updated since 2004, and it looks like this was the last issue of the series produced. None of that bodes well for this ever getting finished, but it’s too good for me to ignore completely. It’s the story of Moses, a young man who is going through some profound changes in his life. He’s finally found a girl he wants to move in with, his job (with a far left publication) seems tenuous at best and he’s having a lot of trouble getting over family problems from his past. These past troubles are expertly woven into the main storyline; I don’t know when I last saw flashbacks go down smoother than these. The reader could have used a recap from the first issue, but I gather that was mostly about Moses meeting this new girl and setting things up a bit. As for the art, the backgrounds and objects are great, but the people are ugly as hell, just in case this is some sort of bizarre pet peeve for somebody. Still, all this adds up to is a lot of wasted potential, at least for this series. My computer is barely functioning at the moment so checking this out is impossible, but his name at least pops up several times in a Google search involving his name and comics, so here’s hoping he’s kept on with it and I just haven’t seen his latest stuff.$3
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Silent Devils
If you’re wondering what this book is about, well, look at that cover. If you guessed that it had something to do with samurais, you nailed it. There are two main areas in this. They’ve been at peace for a long time, but this book starts right when war is about to begin again. You have a huge cast of colorful characters, all kinds of samurai action and a few nicely done battle scenes. Still, what holds this together is that it’s intelligently written. Not that I’ve read a bunch of samurai comics, but Christian has obviously seen his share of samurai movies and has a good idea of the pacing of something like this. The art is solid too, if a bit huge. Sorry, but it’s not necessary for heads and torsos so fill up the majority of every panel. Hey, personal preference, that’s all. Overall it’s a pretty hefty book for $8.95. If you’re in the mood for a good action comic, you could do a whole lot worse. If you’re trying to find out the meaning of life, well, move along. Check out the website!
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Esoteric Tales #2
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times (probably literally, considering how many reviews I’ve done in the past few years): I love a good autobio tale. Sometimes I go for the flashier, more intimate stuff, sometimes I’m happy just with a few tales of average days. This book falls into the latter category. Two stories in this one. The first involves Jonathan riding a subway, including his paranoid thoughts about people pushing him under the train and trying to find somebody to sketch on the ride who’ll stay still and not mace him. Then tragedy strikes when he accidentally drops his pen onto the train tracks. It’s one long story of him talking to himself, basically. The second is his feelings on the dentist. Yes, that’s terror, for anybody who’s never been to the dentist, or maybe has the one magical dentist in the world that doesn’t cause you intense pain and nausea. Simple, basic comics here. The backgrounds usually aren’t particularly intricate, but they don’t need to be to tell this type of story. Looks like he’s setting the world on fire too, if the printings (#1 is in its fifth printing, this is already in its second) are any indication. The first issue is great too. Mostly stories about records and a long one about making the first good electric organ. I’ll get to a longer review one of these days, or not. Looks like he’s just getting started in the comics world, so show him some love! Here’s a website.
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Saint George: Ashcan Edition
Where do I start? How about the good news: this is a decent comic. It’s an ashcan edition, meaning something that was put out mostly as a preview for the eventual comic series, so I knew going in that there wasn’t going to be much of a story. Still, Brad does a good job of summarizing what’s going on, and the recap hints at all kinds of interesting things, like a sword that only our hero (who’s assumed to be crazy by the rest of the world) can see and a big old war between good and evil. The trouble is that our hero spends all 8 pages locked up in a loony bin, so it’s not exactly something that demands that you go out and get future issues. I’ve had problems with people not putting contact info on their books in the past, as it’s the easiest freaking thing in the world to do, but to not even put a website in a preview comic that is designed to get you to want to check out the regular comic is just stupid. The internet being what it is, I was able to find something that may or may not be the site for the publishing company, but it needs to be crystal clear (especially in preview comics) where I need to go to learn more.  There are some sketches thrown in with various characters, and this also does a good job of getting some character information in. Still, I’ll need a little more information before I start buying frogs as demons and a rooster as a pivotal plot point. No, I’m not going to explain that. So: intriguing, the art looks good, the story looks like it could have potential, but they could have put a little more into this ashcan.
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April 27, 2010
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Road to America
I think the line on the ordering page was “the first book from one of the best new talents in the field”. That’s a terrible place to start, because you have to go with the assumption that this guy is one of the best things going instead of just letting him win you over naturally. I thought this book was average, leaning towards really good with the ending. There were a lot of little cliched things that he could have done with the story and didn’t, if that wins him any points. This is the story of a boxer during Algeria’s fight for independence. He refuses to take sides and is set upon by everybody as a result. The art is fantastic, muted but still expressive. I probably would have thought a lot better about this book if it hadn’t been hyped to me beforehand, but there you go. Worth a look if you’re bored and desperate for something new, otherwise it can probably wait.
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April 27, 2010
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Mad Cow Comics #1
OK, there’s good stuff in here, but there’s also plenty that got on my nerves, so let’s start with the bad. The grammar in here (“you’re” instead of “your”, etc.) is terrible. It’s wrong about as often as it could be. That might be a tiny, insignificant thing to you, but for some reason it’s one of those things that bugs the hell out of me. Then there’s the main story, about war and what it does to a person, which is a perfectly alright story… but then there’s panel descriptions at the end. Again, this might be only me, but you shouldn’t have to explain your comic right after the story is over. Then there are a couple of one page strips that are sort of funny, a rant about media that’s great (although it’s usually good, when mentioning independent news sites, to give some of them by name), and a rant about the terrible state of music on the radio today. That one was pretty accurate and funny, but I was left wondering just what kind of music the author did like. Oh, and I’m also not really sure who did what, but I think the two names mentioned at the top of the page are responsible for most of it. All in all a diverse effort, not too bad but full of a lot of simple (and easily corrected) errors. Here’s a list of e-mails, so you can check with them about getting a copy (it’s $1, by the way): Andrew Bartlett (author), Jon Lekton (artist), Alan Ferich (I think the guy who did the rant about music), and Simon Kugel (he did the rant about media). Andrew’s probably your best bet for getting a copy…
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April 27, 2010
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Matter Summer Special Now Available! $5
Huzzah for no panels! OK, so the title page has panels, but the entire comic is free of panels, just images floating in a structureless background. Don’t panic, all you lovers of panels, it’s perfect for the story. This is the tale of two friends, one of which has no higher goal in life than to relax and get high, the other who is trying to “grow up” and fit in at his normal job. Sadly, the pot runs out, leading Whitey White (can you guess which one that is from the cover?) to order drugs online. Said drugs end up being a sort of dimensional portal and things get complicated in a hurry, with a giant corporation, another world, and a strongman enforcer all coming into the picture. Any more info ruins what is truly a great ride, as following all the steps in interdimensional travel and what allows people to travel and why is at the heart of the book. It’s a great book all around, and I have no idea what else Philip has done (although he does pop up on the enormous Various page), but if this is his first book the man can certainly go places. If it’s not his first book he probably already has gone places and I’m just the last to hear about it…
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Devil Water #1
Well, this book sure looks gorgeous, I’ll give it that much. And I’m a big fan of the whole horror/western idea, so I had high hopes going into this one. And I’m coming out of it… still hopeful, but it’s more of a set-up issue than one where anything really significant happens. Unless, of course, you think setting up the characters for the rest of the run is significant for some reason. This starts off letting you know that it’s 1899, and it follows a completely stereotypical gold prospector from back in the day. You know, filthy beard, says “Eureka!” when he finds gold, that sort of thing. Turns out that he was followed by a crew of 4 ne’er-do-wells, who follow his lead to a whole pile of gold… and that’s where they discover an underground pool. Why they jump into the underground pool instead of collecting the piles and piles of gold surrounding them is beyond me, but it seems to change them in a significant way. That’s all we really know about that so far, but it looks to me more like this is superhero/western than horror/western, but that’s a very early opinion that’s almost surely wrong. We also meet a few people in town, and a man who’s passing through, trying to sell his miracle wonder cure-all. I’d say this has some serious potential, and Steven Barr has apparently been involved in all kinds of movies, so he should have the money to keep this going until the story plays out. $3.50
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Desert Peach #30: Headaches
The first thing that struck me about this book was the fact that it was on #30 and I’d never seen it in a comic store. 30! Amazing. I should also add, right off the bat, that this is the only thing I’ve ever read from her (outside of any anthology work I’m not remembering), and it’s right in the middle of a long series. Meaning that I don’t have a clue what’s going on here, and there’s no handy synopsis or anything like that, so I’m kind of in the dark. So, obviously, this review is going to be another one of those “I saw five minutes in the middle of the movie, but I could tell it wasn’t any good” kind of reviews. I didn’t like this much. I had a hell of a time trying to figure out who was who which was, granted, mostly my fault, but some slight thought has to be given to new readers. It’s the story of a bunch of soldiers and other people in WW2, and apparently these were the people who were trying to do good. Bits of dialogue were clever and I had no problem with the art, so that’s not why I didn’t like it. This is a big book for a regular issue (64 pages) and it should have left me wanting more, but it didn’t. I don’t know how to explain my feelings towards it any better than that. Still, she deserves a chance, and I’m sure one of these days I’ll get around to getting one of her collected books so I can have a better idea of what I’m talking about here. Until then, visit her website and I’ll put up everything that’s in print so you can check for yourselves if you’re interested.
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