April 27, 2010
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Doctor Leviathan #1 Now Available! $3.99
Sometimes my willingness to accept anything for the store gets me in trouble. Looking at that cover, I was already willing to trash this, as blood n’ guts generally isn’t my thing in comics, which is odd, as I’m all about it in movies. Anyway, right away this seemed different from the norm. The first five pages are giant splashes of a large group of villains standing around, looking menacing. This could be awful, granted, but there was enough distinction between these characters that made me sit back and give it a chance. The story is that a young girl has been kidnapped by a group of villains, led by a villain who apparently can’t die (and doesn’t mind bugs crawling all over his face), Siege. It turns out that Siege wants revenge for the death of three of his men, who were put to death after killing around 23,000 people. No, the man does not skimp on the details here, going into graphic detail of what a giant and an Electro clone (who looks like Mysterio, oddly enough) could do to a town if they were lunatics. Siege, after telling that story, sets his men on the girl and they tear her apart… but she doesn’t die. In fact, nothing that they do seems to kill her, and what follows then is a pile of sheer carnage. This, finally, is when we’re introduced to our hero Doctor Leviathan, but then only briefly, and we’re left with a heap of questions. Look, if you’re not into this sort of thing you probably stopped reading when you saw the cover. If you’re willing to keep an open mind, there is potential here. Granted, James will have to work past his obsession with having everything going on in front of a featureless white background, and some of that dialogue is downright dopey. Still, his website says that he has eight (!) issues done already, so there should be plenty of chances to see where this goes from here in the near future. It may turn into a Faust clone, or it may get repetitive in a hurry. There’s also the minor fact that most of that fascinating array of villains was gutted (um, spoiler alert), so I guess he’s going to have to come up with a new pile of bad guys. Judging from the imagination shown in those first five pages, that shouldn’t be too much of a problem. $3.99
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Baltic Comics Magazine #5 – After Snowfall
Enough of all those stupid Various pages on this site. From now on everybody gets their own page! This is a collection of stories from 18 different artists (about half from Latvia, the rest from Germany, Sweden, Russia, Switzerland, Finland, Spain, and Lithuania), all dealing with stories set, obviously, after snowfall. These stories go all over the place, as stories from every good anthology should do, with all sorts of artistic styles. There’s Kolbeinn Karlsson telling the story of Dracula’s last days on earth (and how he bit a woman just so he wouldn’t be alone when he died), Ruta Briede with a silent piece about a lonely man in a snowglobe, Ines Christine Geisser showing the tragic consequences of stealing giant blocks of ice from a frozen lake, Hironori Kikuchi (the sampled piece) with a deceptively adorable story about stuffed animals and a human noticing that pieces of their story haven’t had the snow filled in, Yoshi cluing us all in as to how to know which way to dig if you’re trapped in an avalanche, Johan Klungel shows a suicide that didn’t work exactly as intended, Ernests Klavins with a brilliant Lord of the Rings parody where the snow is very useful in tracking the invisible Gollum, and Aisha Franz has a great piece about how an underground child (Americans, think Cabbage Patch Kids) comes up a little too early. That’s roughly half of the people involved, anyway, and just about everything in here has something to recommend it. About 2/3 of this is in color, and I mean vibrant, strong colors. All that and this is still only a measly $6 (U.S., cheaper with places with a functioning economy), while still being the size of a mini comic (although fatter). If you’re sick of the same old stuff, this is a perfect place to start expanding your horizons. $6
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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The Firefly Waltz
I feel like I should explain the setup of this before I get into the contents, because this is anything but a traditional mini. What you have here are nine cards in a little fold-out setting. One the back of each of these cards is writing. You know, the story. And behind the cards is a picture of the story in progress. To sum up, I’ll show you what the average page looks like:
Front, back, and then the actual picture. You can see where the card was in the corners of the picture. Everybody got it? OK. The actual story is about a little boy, seen above and a girl, and a mysterious figure called Liberacion who offers them the future for a song. It’s a gorgeous book and it looks like he has plans for a lot more, although I don’t see how it could ever be done in a way where more than a few dozen people could buy it. But what do I know about stuff like this? It’s unique and worth a look, so send him some money at: P.O. Box 301 Athens, GA 30603-0301. Or just e-mail him, whatever floats your boat…
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Epileptic 1
Before I even get started, um… Volume 1? What’s left? Where can it go from here? Doesn’t David B. know that American audiences need a cliffhanger after the first volume? Sheesh. As for the book itself, it’s fantastic. I feel like I could sit here reading it for days and still not get every little thing that’s in it. On the surface it’s the story of the author as he deals with his epileptic brother as he’s growing up. His parents try just about every means imaginable to cure him including macrobiotics, communes, gurus, and psychologists and medical doctors, but nothing seems to do much good. My main problem with the book is that it’s all over the place, but that does keep with the theme of throwing everything they have at the problem. It’s not a casual read, it’s a commitment to sit down and finish the whole thing (this is the second time I’m tried) but it is a rewarding experience if you can do it. It might be painfully dull for some people, but for others (like me) it’s a fascinating trip into childhood and dealing with situations that just can’t be fixed.
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April 27, 2010
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Remote
Man, I wish my scanner could scan in circles. It’s a circular comic, you see, and it looks so much cooler sitting here than the scan does up there. Oh well. So is this just a gimmick comic? Neato circular cover and then it’s crap? Luckily, no. This is the story of a robot prototype who feels emotions. A rich, lonely man hears about it and decides that he has to have it, and this is the story of their life together and what it took for the man to actually get the robot. I love the sparse, Thomas Marquetish linework he has going on here. Great stuff all around, and I think (although no promises here) that I have more of Adam’s work from FLUKE, so I’m looking forward to seeing what else he’s done. Here’s a website, I’d guess this is $2, and you can read this comic online at that website, if you’re not convinced yet.
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April 27, 2010
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Dirtheads #5
You know, for a split second there I was going to bitch about how there was no contact info in this comic, again going into my diatribe of how sick I am of having no contact information for these comics… until I noticed the huge web address on the front cover.  I should mention right off the bat that the website has plenty of free comics of all shapes and sizes and, as #1-4 of this series are apparently out of print, you should probably check it out if you end up liking this one. But I’m getting ahead of myself. This is mostly the story of Mr. Kazuo, also known as Gooch. He has a crappy job on the phone helping people with their internet problems, but seems content to stay at his moderately paid, easy job indefinitely until he (spoiler alert!) gets fired and ends up spending all his time drunk in front of the television. I wasn’t sure what this was going to like when I first opened it up. I was guessing a weekly strip that loosely held together, but if that’s how it started Tara has done an excellent job of making this a coherent story. There are some engaging (and all too true, as anybody who has spent time on the phone in customer service will know) stories of customer interaction in here, and the reason Gooch gets fired is hilarious, especially with the misdirection leading up to it. Tara even manages to make almost four solid pages with the lead character in front of the television funny, no small task. It looks great and it’s funny, which is all I ever need with these things. There are also a few shorter strips, one about paying cover charges, and one about getting caught up in the Olympics every four years. Tara even manages to throw in a back page with three panel strips, and here’s the shocking thing: they’re really funny. Maybe that’s not shocking to you, but it’s always at least mildly surprising to me when strips are genuinely funny. But hey, don’t take my word for it, that website will have all the comics you need to be convinced. $2
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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The Balloon
It’s hard to make a story both heartbreaking and adorable in the span of 7 pages of story, but Leslie pulls it off. This is the story of a little boy who releases a balloon into the sky on his ninth birthday with a note attached, asking whoever gets it to write him back. If I explain any more than that I’ll ruin the whole story, but she puts everything together really well. The art is a bit raw in places, but I have to give her credit for trying all sorts of images and poses. Oh, and $3 is way too much for something this tiny, but it does come in a handy little envelope, so… nope, it’s still too much. Still, a pretty good comic and worth a look.
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April 27, 2010
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Tales of the Great Unspoken
I’m running out of ways to say that I liked a book. This is another Xeric award winner and, with a few notable exceptions, these are always worth picking up. It’s from a couple of years ago and I don’t have a clue what he’s done since then (anybody?), but he certainly got off to a good start. It’s split up into three parts: The Dignified Devil and his despair (color and beautifully done), The Stranger and his antics (black and white and kind of slapstick stuff. Changes the whole theme of the book), and back to The Dignified Devil and his job as a salesman who’s given the task of selling something to the one client that his firm has been unable to crack, with one special stipulation: he doesn’t know what he’s selling. Is it legal to use “:” twice in one sentence? No, I didn’t think so. Anyway, well done. This has been out for a few years so you probably already have this, or you’ve heard other people say good things about it, so I’m just adding my voice to the chorus. Funny at times, poignant and sad at others, surreal at others still, it works all the way through. I’m putting a few pictures up instead of my customary one, so maybe you can figure out for yourself how much you might like it. Just found his website.It’s pretty nice, but beware if you have a slow computer. If you have a nice computer, enjoy the flicks…
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April 27, 2010
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Suck Suck Kiss
Hey look, it is possible to get contact information for somebody who doesn’t put it in their comic! All you need is an actual, legible name (although it does help if it isn’t John Smith) and Google does the rest. This is a tiny mini dealing with a party, a date and the aftermath of both. That came out sounding more dramatic than I intended, as it was a pretty normal affair, except for the fact that it was a costume party. At the end of the night Sandra’s date (which didn’t seem to go all that well, their dialogue notwithstanding) goes in for the kiss, but unfortunately for her he had been dressed up as a clown. Or the Crow, I can’t tell which. There’s not enough here to do more than get a general impression of her artistic skills, but I’d say there’s still some work for her to do, mostly because everybody in the comic seemed to be wearing the same pair of pants. I couldn’t find much in the way of comics on her website, but she’s working on a fairly fascinating project involving taking pictures of her family. Go take a look, maybe you can also find more on comics than I was able to… $1
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April 27, 2010
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See Dick Die
As you can see from that cover, this one is free, so it’s automatically hard to complain about that. I sampled the shortie in here, so there’s no real need to talk about that, other than to say that the Arsenic Lullaby influence was strong in that one, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Other than that you have a story about a character named Dick getting hit by a bus after he manages to get a free pass to heaven after buying a candy bar from somebody selling them on a street corner. He seems like a real asshole, hence the funny of him getting into heaven so easily. Nothing is ever that easy though, but if I tell you more than that you’ll know the whole story. It’s interesting that Duane draws the “evil” characters and Michelle draws the “good” ones, it’s rare that you get different artists working in the same panels. While it’s entirely possible that anything larger than this would fall apart, I’m intrigued from this small sample. Visit this website for this book and this one to learn more about the creators…
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Meatloaf Freak
If you’re at all like me, your first thought upon reading that headline was “what’s a meatloaf freak?” Lucky for you, it doesn’t stay a mystery for very long, as this is a tiny, tiny thing. There is an apparently very stupid creature who’s trying to hail a taxi. Upon doing so it becomes obvious to the taxi driver that this creature is almost certainly broke, at which point the creature pulls out… meatloaf. This is a tiny, mostly absurd thing, and it would take a better man than me to spend a whole lot of time deconstructing it. It’s funny, there’s an almost powerful ending, that cover scan is just about actual size, what more do you want?
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April 27, 2010
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Being Different (Michelle Arcand only)
Three cheers for the deceptive powers of comics to alter your perceptions! Come on, take a look at that cover before I go on. Tell me that you don’t have a pretty solid preconceived notion of where this one is going to go. Sullen little girl confused and alone, upset about being different, possibly plotting some sort of revenge on her classmates, right? OK, maybe that was just me. But what you really have here is a story about conformity and what it really means to be different. The little girl decides that she wants to make herself different, so she does that by chopping most of her hair off, tying a sock around her head and putting flowers in her hair. She demands that everybody else who wants to be different like her do the exact same thing, and ends up with a following… but why ruin the whole thing? Great stuff, all in color for $1 somehow, I couldn’t recommend this any more highly.
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April 27, 2010
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Relax, Bro And Let It Flow!
Well, you can see for yourself how awesome that cover is, so I shouldn’t have to do too much “selling”. This is meant to be a little public service announcement, or, as it says on the back, “These motivational tracts were produced to be placed in conspicuous areas where public urination may occur”. It’s short, but it’s in full color and gorgeous, with even the background characters being interesting. And if you have some money to throw around, you could do a lot worse than to buy a bunch of these and leave them at rest stops on your next road trip. $1
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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The Autobiography of Rik Angeles #1: Looking For Lust In All The Wrong Places
That’s a lofty title for such a tiny comic. Also hilarious, because this autobiography contains almost no personal information and really only deals with about half an hour of a night of his life. Which, oddly, also makes this one of my new favorite autobio comics, subject to drastic changes of opinion when/if more issues come out. Rik has apparently just learned that he looks older than his high school years and has decided to use that by trying to pick up a woman at a bar. That or just get drunk; motivation isn’t dealt with here. A twist is thrown in, and that’s it for the comic. Maybe it’s going somewhere, maybe it’s not, but I’m intrigued and the $.50 price tag doesn’t hurt anything. Worth a look, at least so far…
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Their website, which doesn’t load as of 7/7/09
Into the Dark: Ashcan edition
I’m posting two websites above (one which doesn’t work and one which just has a basic description of their company and what they hope to accomplish) because one of them is bound to work soon. I mean, these people only got started at SPACE 2009, I can’t see why they would give up so soon. Yes, I am the eternal optimist. Also, if you’re doing an ashcan, put some freaking contact information in your book! That’s true of all mini comics, granted, but the whole point of ashcans is to get the word out about your comics. That’s tough to do if people can’t find you. All of this is an unwelcome distraction from the comic, which showed a lot of promise. This is the story of a man who is failing at his job and with his marriage, and seems to be failing with his daughter as well. Things come to a head, he passes out and wakes up in an asylum with no memory of how he got there or where exactly he was. The rest of this shortie shows this man trying to come to grips with his situation while also dealing with some pretty horrific monsters that seem to pop up from time to time. Yes, all kinds of things are still vague, which is fine because this is just an ashcan. All it was supposed to do was to get the reader excited to see an actual comic with this subject, and they succeeded in that goal. Granted, the fact that they don’t have a working website 3 months after SPACE isn’t a good sign, and it’s entirely possible that they’ve given up on comics already. Still, this issue tells me that they deserve the benefit of the doubt, even if they did screw up by not having any sort of available access to their work online, not even a lousy e-mail address. That being the case, I have no idea of price, but it’s a black and white mini, so let’s call it $1.
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Crude Dude Comix #5
Important note: I have a fairly miserable cold today, my head feels like it’s going to float away and I mostly want to go back to bed. So if this review comes across as crankier than usual, it may or may not be justified. That’s what I get for pledging to keep up the daily reviews. I should also note that this issue came out in 2005 and my main complaints (the overwhelming amount of shading in the action scenes and the many spelling errors) seem to have been fixed, or at least that’s the impression I got from wandering around Jose’s website for a bit. Still, this review is about this particular issue, and it landed on the side of being a bit of a disappointment. Mostly because Jose set a high bar for himself initially (at least with me), as there aren’t nearly enough people doing political and/or current events in their comics. This mini has a pile of stories, starting with a meandering piece about the benefits of abandoning society and joining a group of people living in the wilderness. It did make a few good points. I would think one of the main points of leaving society would be to leave other people altogether, but I’m also an antisocial kind of guy. Next up is a short piece with a hippy arguing that we should respect all cultures, including the ones that practice genital mutilation. Said hippy goes on to practice what he preaches, but the story would have probably been stronger without the final page of generic hippy bashing. They’re an easy target, I know, but sometimes less is more. Cancer Everywhere is the funniest piece in the book, dealing with the fact that everything in the world supposedly causes cancer and the creative ways the people involved try to work their way around that fact. Still, I used a sample page from this story to illustrate my point about that art going shade crazy. Philanthropy Massacre also deals with fairly easy targets: the Hollywood elite and the criminal amount of money wasted on crappy movies when it could go to helping all sorts of people. A massacre is always fun and there are some insightful bits, so no complaints there. Finally there’s a piece about how everything is so shitty and how much shittier it’s going to get in ten years, and you’re certain to find something to agree with in this one. All told it’s a meh, mostly because of the dense shadowing whenever things got really interesting, the spelling errors (although he did get a lot of the big words right, so it’s not like the guy’s a moron), and his unfortunate habit of calling every stupid thing “gay”. I did like how he summed up the stories in the introduction, or at least what he was trying to accomplish with them. From his website it’s hard to tell if he’s still doing comics, but (yes, even with the “meh” review) I’d like to see where these stories went from here. No price, but it’s probably around $2.
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Nerve Bomb #0
Oh, silly #0. Why do people do that again? Is it a marketing thing? Because if it’s only used for “origin stories”, I’m afraid this one doesn’t fit the bill. This is a bit of a super hero parody, featuring a mechanical rabbit and an incredibly smart woman, wandering around fighting crime. They fight a giant old lady and a collection of villains that spend more time getting introduced than they do actually in panel (and why does that happen so often during these super hero type books? They’re often more interesting in concept than the main characters). Also included are a hand puppet and a giant robot or two. I don’t mean to do nothing but bash this book, as it was pretty entertaining in parts. The art was easy on the eyes and there might have been something to the characters, if they’d been given any time at all to grow. Anyway, the six page wordless story at the end was fantastic. As chaotic as anything I’ve seen in comics, yet still with an underlying sense of order. It’s about a cat, a short man on roller skates and a big dog, um, getting into trouble, I guess. Lovely stuff. I would have liked to see more of it. Check out the website, see what else he’s done, this one is $3.50 but it’s huge…
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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Coffin Kids #1 (co-written by Previn Wong)
I try, on nearly a daily basis (although not weekends because I’m not that crazy) to be fair to the books I ramble about, try to pick out the good parts and give heaping benefits of the doubt to people who may or may not deserve that benefit. Coffin Kids is a first issue by Roslyn, so she’s undoubtedly still working out the kinks, and might have tons of quality work in her. All that being said, this issue was lousy in almost every measurable way. The main character is named Reaper, a kid who steals for a living and is also able to turn invisible. Why? I had no idea from reading the comic and no idea from the website, but happened across the letter that was sent with this comic and here it is: “Reaper has a gift and a curse. He absorbs light that burns his skin, but also allows him to disappear.” Um, OK. Still doesn’t make a lot of sense, and it really should have been somewhere in the comic in case people who aren’t reviewers read this, but I’ll play along. Reaper stumbles across a kid trapped in a coffin while robbing a house, and the kid communicates with him telepathically… somehow. None of these powers are considered worth noting by the characters in any way. Reaper, after starting to free the kid, hears a noise and has to get out of there because he doesn’t care about anybody but himself. Why he has to leave when he can turn himself invisible isn’t explained in the slightest but again, OK, I can still play along. Reaper then, after a tiny amount of soul searching, decides to go back for the kid but instead runs into the kid’s older brother in the house. Again, for somebody with the power of invisibility, he sure doesn’t seem to have much of a handle on when to use it, and ends up getting into a fight with Robert. Maybe he only gets to be invisible for short periods of time, which would explain this a bit… if it was in fact explained to the reader at any point. Reaper then gets captured and the story shifts suddenly into the perspective of Robert, but if I keep going I’ll ruin the whole story for the people who do want to read this. The art was fine, all the shadows helped with the whole creepy/campy vibe she seemed to be going for. We still don’t have any hints about who or what is dragging kids into coffins or why, and it’s entirely possible things are going to be explained perfectly in the next few issues and I’ll end up looking like a total jerk for this review. It wouldn’t be the first time. Still, there has to be something to make me want to come back to a comic, and this first issue didn’t leave me clamoring for more. $2.95
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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The Doofus Omnibus
There must have been an exact point in this book where I went from not being all that sure about it to loving it, but I’m not sure where that was. I do remember the strip that kicked away the last few doubts from my head though. Doofus has a friend named Henry Hotchkiss. He’s swimming in the ocean but realizes that he’s forgotten his bathing suit. Meanwhile, a couple on the beach have a young woman in a tiny biking pass by and they remark on how her bathing suit couldn’t get much smaller… and then Henry walks by, wearing a used condom as a bathing suit. It’s not like everything in here is quite that crude, but if that’s the kind of thing you find funny, you’re in luck. This book has all sorts of stories in it, ranging from the newspaper strip style (I guess he had a weekly strip for a while) to regular comic stories. There’s also a colorful, if relatively similar, cast of characters that I’m going to let you discover for yourself, and stories written by various other Fantagraphics people like Dan Clowes. They also all absolutely loved the book, at least judging by the quotes on the back cover. I feel like I’ve just discovered a new world, but in reading this book I’ve already come to the end of it. Here’s hoping there’s more out there because I want more! And did I mention how incredible this guy is as an artist? That’s something that wasn’t really touched on in all the quotes, but his ability with backgrounds (seriously, if you have a copy of this book, just check out some of the larger panels. Look around in the backgrounds and see what you can see. A few that I noticed had definite subtle themes that had nothing to do with the comic, or I’m going insane) is just phenomenal. When am I going to learn to stop doing parentheses anyway? Sorry. The book is $16.95 and, though it might look short, a lot of it is newspaper strips and it’s a dense read. Check it out and see what impresses the best folk that comics has to offer!
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Posted by Kevin
April 27, 2010
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The Best of Steven: A Collection
The fact that there is only one collection of Steven available is a true crime against humanity. Do yourself a favor, try and find out where all the old Kitchen Sink books are and buy all the Stevens they have. I think Fantagraphics is publishing the new stuff too, but it’s slower than I would have thought humanly possible. Anyway, if you don’t know already, this was the funniest newspaper strip ever. Go ahead, challenge me. Nothing was ever funnier than this one consistently, and I’ll stand by that statement. Brock, Snap-E-Tom, Shuman, E.T., Bunny, Fudgy, Fifi Doodle, Mr. Owl P.H.D…. a better cast of characters you won’t find anywhere. I don’t have this collection, but how could it possibly be bad? Buy this and mourn the fact that this is the only collection available. Maybe if enough people bitch about it somebody will put out a collected edition.
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