April 22, 2010
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Pat Makes Drawings #1
Quick, what’s this comic about? Yes, this is the case where the title gives it all away, although technically that title could apply to every comic ever made. This isn’t a sketchbook though, as all the drawings in here are of higher quality than your average sketches. Pat starts off with drawings of cute animals (although he can’t help but put odd things on them) and moves on to kinky sluts. From here he has some regular old comic stories, dealing with two creatures walking on an indescribable landscape and talking religion, the strip I sampled below (and that “thumbs up” made my day), and the eternal question of whether that is, in fact, a banana in your pants. Throw in a few more drawings towards the end (which I’m keeping a mystery, as why not save a few surprises?) and voila! It’s a comic. Oh, I almost forgot the best part: the post-breakup letter to an ex (no idea if this is really Pat’s letter but I doubt it) that descends into madness involving mandatory metal teeth for all. His drawings have gotten a lot cleaner over the years, but he’s managed to hold onto that overall sense of unreality and insanity that suits his stuff so well. If you’re one of those comic readers who prefers all stories, all the time (like I usually do), there are plenty to choose from on this page, including a few things I still have left in the store. If you’re just a fan of his stuff there’s more than enough in here to make it worthwhile. No price, so let’s say $2.
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Untitled
This is a collection of some of Pat’s shorter pieces and also includes Quotidian, which I reviewed ages ago and it’s way, way at the bottom of this ridiculously massive page. Short recap for today: I don’t remember it being nearly that, for lack of a better term, fucked up. I’d also swear that he either cleaned up the art a bit or he was better than I thought at the time, as the story really looks amazing. Tons of small details that I either didn’t see the first time through or have since forgotten because of the ravages of age. Other than that the short pieces include the joys of crossing the streams, the matter of perspective when it comes to giant creepy monsters, and how it’s always best to lull a creature into complacency before bashing its head in with a rock. Quotidian also comes across after those short pieces as being something of an epic, what with the love story, fighting off evil monsters and starring in a rock band. I liked it just fine as a stand alone comic (back then Pat was mostly doing comics with all kinds of stories), but these little pieces really serve to contrast that story. It’s probably worth picking up even if you already read Quotidian, and I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess most of you missed it the first time around. No price, but what with that fancy cover I’d say it’s at least $2.
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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What a Whopper
A comic with a message! Sorry, even with all the chaos in the world I rarely see something cross my desk that’s this socially conscious, with all sorts of links to boot. This is the story of migrant workers in general and a group of workers in Florida from last year specifically. Did you know that a fair amount of migrant workers are essentially legalized slaves? Sure looks like it’s true. And don’t start with any crap about how they choose to come here and the free market has to regulate itself. One read through of this issue will show what a joke that is, not to mention if you happen to dig even a little bit through the links on the back page. The connection to Burger King is simple: even after several companies finally did the right thing and accepted some regulations, Burger King wouldn’t do so, offering increasingly ridiculous reasons as to why not. Dan says that after this was published BK did finally accept some of these conditions (like, for example, a 1 cent raise per pound of tomatoes) but it still holds up as a powerful, concise and even entertaining recap of the circumstances a good chunk of the unseen population of this country lives with every day. Or they used to, anyway. Things do seem to be improving, but man were they ever in the crapper to start with. $3
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Archcomix #1
Huzzah! It looks like there’s finally a small press guy with a persistent social conscience! Not that there haven’t been plenty of comics here and there with a social message, but after seeing two comics now it looks like this is Dan’s motivating factor in making book, and it’s about time that somebody was doing this on a regular basis. It always boggled my mind that such a tiny community would focus 99% of its resources (feel free to quibble with that number) or navel-gazing or, you know, art. Not that there’s anything wrong with that; I’m often quite a fan of navel-gazing (done well) and art. It’s just that there’s always a lot of shit going down in the world, and a lot of shit that has already gone down, that gets forgotten as soon as it happens. This comic also marks a departure by Dan from his last issue, as this one has a pile of stories instead of just the one hefty piece. First up (after the outstanding Noam Chomsky quote, just so you last surviving Republicans know to run right off the bat) is a conversation between a reporter and a Congressman turned lobbyist about the revolving door in Washington and how lobbying works. For those of you who are thinking “through legalized bribery” well, yeah, but Dan goes into a bit more detail. Next up is a haunting silent piece about a businessman who kills a deer on his way to work and can’t get the image out of his mind.  Then there’s the heart of the book, a longer story about the coup in Chile in 1970 and how it was financed and helped considerably by Nixon and the US government. Dan actually takes documents that have been declassified to show exactly how blatant and lawless this was, just in case you needed proof that our government was (and sometimes is) essentially a criminal enterprise, or they would be if they weren’t the ones making and enforcing the laws. Next is a short piece on gun shows, which is the sampled piece so you can see for yourselves but man are those exceptionally creepy things.  Dan then explains his love for a group of activist grannies (and their children and grandchildren) by showing how they protest and what they have fought for over the years. Finally there’s the heartbreaking tale (even for a cynic like me) of a beggar in Nigeria, how he keeps the bridge he lives on thanklessly clean and how the other beggar on the bridge wouldn’t take care of his gangrenous leg because he couldn’t imagine living without it. The amazing thing is that he manages to tell all these stories without ever getting overly sanctimonious or preachy, an occasional failing of leftist publications and commentators. Of course, lunacy is the failing of some of the more right wing publications and commentators, and I’ll take sanctimony over that any day.  If you only read comics for the escapism, move along, you have plenty of options. If you occasionally like to learn something, however, you can’t do much better than these comics. $5
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Grey Bear
So, who else out there thought that Graham only dabbled in funny comics? I confess that I sure did. When somebody is a master at one field, why mess around with the other stuff? Well, this is a serious comic, which was disconcerting when I realized I was still waiting for the punchline after I finished this little mini. It’s the story of an astronaut (with the code name of Grey Bear) and his wife or girlfriend. They’ve both been at their station for a long time and are having a fight which, in the isolation of space, can have some pretty serious consequences. If you’re just looking for a laugh, well, pretty much everything else on this page is a good place for it. If you’ve always wondered what else the man could do, this is an excellent place to start looking. $2
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Commercial Success
This is for anybody out there who has heard of the genius of Graham Annable but doesn’t want to spend the $10 or so to get a good hefty graphic novel of his work. You’re cheating yourself, as this is tiny and not nearly as funny as his big books, but hey, it’s your money. This is done entirely in corporate logos, or at least mostly. It’s funny ’cause it’s true! This may have even been in one of the graphic novels, but I don’t have the capacity in my brain to remember trivia like that. Either way, if you’re looking for something tiny to try to convince your friends with, you could do a whole lot worse than this. Of course, the bigger books are mostly silent and as such are pretty good reads, but I seem to be traveling in circles here, so I’d best wrap this up. It’s cheap anyway, and available at the stupendous Poopsheet website… $1
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Stickleback
Hooray for one of these Graham Annable books being cheap! By cheap I mean $6.95, but still, a much lower price is better for people who are willing to try new people, and there’s not much better out there to try than this. Stickleback is the story of a man named George (who makes figures out of toilet paper in socially conscious poses), his cat Patty (who likes to tear apart said figures), his friend Yanni (who is depressed about his fingernail and his finger becoming one long, disgusting thing), and three ass-heads at the cafe. It’s almost impossible to pick any one sample page to show you what you’re getting into, as Graham is so deliberate that most of the gags are either set up pages in advance or are just reaction shots to things that have been building for a long time. Or I could just sample the punchline, spoiling it for anybody going in blind and ruining the joke. This is one of those rare books you could give to anybody on the planet and they’d have a hard time not finding it funny, even if maybe it didn’t convince them that comics were the next step in great literature in the world. Of course, this is also the planet that I prefer to live on that I’m talking about, and that planet seems to diverge wildly from this actual planet at times. Click on the title for ordering info or contact info for Alternative Comics is up there too…
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Further Grickle
Cripes, I think the review up there was one of the first things I did for this website and here it is, 3/22/04, and I finally got something else to comment on. Well, I think this book is brilliant. So much so that I wonder if reading the previous book again would give me a better opinion of it, although I’ll have to get settled and have all my comics out of boxes to tell you for sure. Graham’s art is deceptively simple, but there’s plenty going on in every panel. I’m breaking with tradition here slightly to give you two samples. It’s two pages in a row, so I hope I’m not breaking any unwritten rules here, but follow the character on the far right of the panel. He’s trying to get to a party, see, but the only way to get there is through a friend of a friend who makes this other guy want to kill people. The beauty of this book is in the facial expressions of the characters. I don’t know how he conveys so much with so little, but it works. In this story you have a precocious cat who wanders into some genuinely heart-wrenching conversations, Billy Joel trying to kill a wombat, a hacking cough and a quack, and a couple of other short pieces. I think I said the other book was a bit pricey for what it was, but with this one (priced the same at $14.95) I have to say that you’re getting a deal. Check it out, if you don’t already know who this guy is, and tell your friends if you do, because everybody could use some more funny in their lives. Oh, and sorry about the corners of the samples, but you try scanning a graphic novel.
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Grickle
I read this book when it first came out a few months ago and thought it was an uneven but promising piece of work. After reading it again, I have to upgrade my position slightly. I like the vast majority of it, especially the silent (or mostly silent) pieces. The only thing I have a problem with is his… er… “homage” to Sam Henderson. It could easily be called “ripping him off” and, seeing as how Henderson’s name isn’t mentioned anywhere, I kind of wonder if that’s what he’s doing. Oh, That Tommy and Party Ass particularly… you know, what I’m going to assume the best out of this guy and just say that the two of them are friends, because otherwise this imitation is way too blatant, especially considering that they both have the same publisher (Alternative Comics). Taking that attitude, this book goes up in my opinion even further.
It has about two dozen stories in it, mostly short pieces. Disturbing at times, funny at others, and sometimes even a little of both, which makes it all the more disturbing. The guy has an interesting worldview, even if you can almost see that he’s worked in a respectable business for a while. Sorry, but he just doesn’t seem like he’s as much of a social misfit as most of the other comic artists that I read. As such, this has a slightly more “mainstream” feel than most of the things I read. Not sure how I can say that with a straight face with stories like Decency (about a frog being tortured and killed), Slight Aberration (about an accidental hit and run and the killer getting away with it), and Love Monster (about a man misinterpreting a friendly waitress and imagining their life together, much to his chagrin), but there you have it. Hey, somebody once said that opinions are like assholes: everybody has one and most of them stink. The bottom line is that this is a good book and it’s well worth checking out. A bit pricey at $15, but there are certainly worse things you could spend your money on.
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Try Adventure #1
More often than not “#1” in the small press world means “the only issue ever”. I’m really hoping that’s not the case with this one. Chris sent me a pile of comics, so you’ll be seeing plenty more of his stuff in the weeks to come, and the pessimist in me says that there’s no way they’ll all be this good. First off, kudos on the package, as he left a nice illustration on the envelope and, just as I was about to start raging about a lack of contact info, I saw an envelope marked “secrets”. Well, I won’t go into all the details of what was inside, but it also included two websites. Really, he already won me over with the packaging, making the first comic I grabbed out of the pile amazing was just a bonus. This mini has three adventures, each more awesome than the last, except for the fact that the middle story was the best. First up is the tale of a rogue chronomancer who travels through time doing… something. He spends most of the story (after our hero gets shot and tended to by a nurse from olden times) explaining who he is and what he does, and Chris managed to make the whole thing more of less make sense before ending the story. Next up is Lady Girl, the story of a mild-mannered librarian who can turn into a superhero who happens to be a homicidal lunatic who still talks like a mild-mannered librarian. Her confrontation with the boss behind the big bank robbery is a thing of beauty and pretty much everything she says is both hilarious and horrifying. Finally there’s the tale of Barry the Barbarian, who goes to the rescue of the local village (with his giant bunny steed) mostly so he can talk to this girl he likes who is seeing another man. Awkwardness ensues, and really, who does call themselves Michael and not Mike? All told it’s an excellent issue, Chris does some really expressive work with faces considering that the artwork is overall a bit minimalistic. No price, but let’s say $2 and I can’t wait to get to the rest of the stuff in this pile…
Everything #2 (with Mark Hensley)
I can’t tell you how happy I am to discover that this is an ongoing series. Oh, I knew there was a second issue, I just figured that it would be a completely different story, as how could they follow up that first issue? Quite capably, as it turns out. Things start off this time with you trying to relax (still in your ankylosaurus form) after a successful concert. Naturally, there’s too much action in your life for relaxation to be successful, and somebody takes a shot at you. The bullets, however, are liquid bullets, and you know exactly who tried to kill you. This leads you to seek out Dr. Jambo, as he can tell you what the story is behind your amulet. Still, you have to make it to him, and the people hijacking the plane have their own plans. Again, this is the first half dozen pages or so of the story, and again, I can’t bring myself to spoil much more. OK, a few more things: your father (Mike Tyson) returns from the future to settle the score, and you also go into the internet. Physically, that is.  I forgot to mention in the last review that Chris and Mark are taking requests, as this is the comic that has everything, so any suggestion you send along may very well be in the next issue. And oh, there will certainly be a next issue if that cliffhanger is any indication. There’s still no price, I still think $2 sounds about right, and I still think that if any rich people are reading this they should give them $2000 instead in exchange for them making more of these forever and ever.
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Everything #2 (with Mark Hensley)
I can’t tell you how happy I am to discover that this is an ongoing series. Oh, I knew there was a second issue, I just figured that it would be a completely different story, as how could they follow up that first issue? Quite capably, as it turns out. Things start off this time with you trying to relax (still in your ankylosaurus form) after a successful concert. Naturally, there’s too much action in your life for relaxation to be successful, and somebody takes a shot at you. The bullets, however, are liquid bullets, and you know exactly who tried to kill you. This leads you to seek out Dr. Jambo, as he can tell you what the story is behind your amulet. Still, you have to make it to him, and the people hijacking the plane have their own plans. Again, this is the first half dozen pages or so of the story, and again, I can’t bring myself to spoil much more. OK, a few more things: your father (Mike Tyson) returns from the future to settle the score, and you also go into the internet. Physically, that is.  I forgot to mention in the last review that Chris and Mark are taking requests, as this is the comic that has everything, so any suggestion you send along may very well be in the next issue. And oh, there will certainly be a next issue if that cliffhanger is any indication. There’s still no price, I still think $2 sounds about right, and I still think that if any rich people are reading this they should give them $2000 instead in exchange for them making more of these forever and ever.
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Everything #1 (with Mark Hensley)
I said in the review for Try Adventure that I doubted that all of Chris’s comics would be as great as that one, as it was a pile of undistilled awesome. I would like to happily report that, as of my reading the second comic in this pile, I was wrong. Sure, it’s possible that some of the ones left to read are going to suck, but at this point I highly doubt it. This is the story of, well, everything, and it boggles my mind that there’s so much crap in the movie theaters over the summer when somebody could just get the rights to this comic and have the biggest summer blockbuster of all time. This is going to be a tricky thing to review, as I don’t want to give away a single thing about this comic. The real joy of this issue was in seeing what Chris and Mark were going to come up with on each page. Still, I do have to give a few things away, don’t I? I can’t just tell everybody to go out there and buy this and expect to have it happen. OK, fine. The comic starts off with you (yes, you) waiting for your estranged father to meet you for dinner. Your ex is serving you, and you can tell she wants to get back together with you. Your father arrives, and he turns out to be Mike Tyson. Sadly, there’s very little time to enjoy your meeting, as the kitchen staff is trying to impregnate a gorilla with human sperm. This leads to a kitchen brawl, as you turn into an Ankylosaurus (thanks to your amulet) and Mike Tyson (who wears his boxing gloves wherever he goes) obliterates the doctor. You swat another doctor with your tail, knocking him through the window, into space and directly into the sun. Sadly, it turns out the gorilla’s intentions were pure and he wanted to be just like us.  I have just described the first five (5) pages of this 28 page comic. I haven’t even mentioned the lizard men, your concert or the fact that every woman in this comic would clearly love the chance to sleep with you. I’ve said it before, but only when it’s been completely true: it’s comics like these that keep me happy to sit down and work on this website every day.  If you have a sense of humor you’re only hurting yourself by not checking this out. No price is listed, I’d guess $2, but really any price he asks for this is more than fair.
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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The 12 Hour Man #1 (art by Scott Longo)
Go ahead, take a guess on what this comic is about. I’m sure there’s a list of possibilities racing through your mind after seeing that title. And the winner is… a one man wrecking crew working for a shadowy arm of the government! Yep, in this case the 12 hour man is someone who drops into an area, clears out all the bad guys in it and goes home in under 12 hours. Basically it’s an excuse for Chris & Scott to draw some serious gore and mayhem, and I’m here to tell them that they don’t need an excuse for such a thing. As there’s not much of a story to speak of, it leaves me, as a reviewer, with a bit of a blank spot in terms of things to talk about. The art is wonderful, with some brutal (but never horrific, somehow) violence. The writing, well, all Chris has to do is throw in a few instructions from the mysterious man guiding the 12 hour man and the occasional shouted threat, but he does this admirably. My appreciation for the work of this man should be obvious if you scroll down this page a bit, and this comic does nothing to lessen that. Start with the “Everything” series (as it does, after all, contain everything), then work your way over to this one. No price, as usual, but I’ll guess $2
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Magical Madness #2
OK, I got this issue with #1, so none of the complaints I had there have really changed here. The problem is that this issue is actually worse than #1. I don’t think the main characters moved the entire time, which might be OK, but the book is an extended fight scene with some kind of swamp creature. There’s no tension or action, but some kind of a fight definitely took place. Other than that, everything I said for #1 still applies here. Not sure what else to say, really. I didn’t like it, but I’m just one guy with an admittedly odd sense of humor. $2 is definitely too much for a tiny book though…
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Magical Madness #1
Truth in advertising time: I blew up the cover and the sample to twice their normal size. Why? Because I figured it would be almost impossible to make anything out otherwise, and it’s relevant to the criticisms I have about the book. This is a story of two people and a wise-cracking dummy who apparently go around fixing odd problems. In this issue they try and retrieve a woman’s uncle who has been hypnotized by Dracula. Naturally, the whole Dracula story has been rehashed here with our heroes in place of the literary characters. It’s also tremendously abbreviated, of course. There are a few funny parts, but there are also some groaners when it comes to the one-liners. Not sure how you could avoid that with a wise-cracking dummy, but there you go. What was wrong with it? Well, Anthony needs to work a bit on keeping the characters looking the same throughout the book. The size of that dummy’s nose varied wildly. The other faces were better, mostly. He also needs to throw a few backgrounds in. The first few pages had plenty of them, then it was almost all straight lines of crosshatching. It’s a tiny, tiny book, so I’m not sure how much it would have added, but it probably would have helped. Overall it was a good first book. Work needs to be done, but there’s definitely some promise here. There are two websites listed on the back of the book, here and here. Check them both out, I don’t see a price on this but it can’t be more than a dollar.
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Gen Eric (with Nick Mamatas & T. Motley) Now Available! $2
So who saw the Sin City movie? Complete mayhem all around, blood and guts all over the place (although not red blood), and all of the quiet moments from three Sin City books taken out for the sake of keeping up the frantic pace. Well, this parody has a lot in common with that, with the extra added bonus of being funny. Oh, if only my scanner worked and I could show you the back cover of this book, if sums the whole thing up beautifully. Anyway, if you’re looking for a plot here, you’re looking in the wrong place. It’s a mish-mash of sex and violence, which shouldn’t come as a shock to anybody, considering the subject material. The art is vaguely Frank Miller-esque, more than enough to keep the little book moving, and it was great to see a Sin City plot crammed down into mini comic form. More than enough here to keep fans (and haters) of the series happy. Contact info is up there, it’s $2 and you can also get it in my online store, if you wanna…
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April 22, 2010
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The Cheerleader & Other Stories Now Available! $1
Three cheers for printing errors! OK, maybe not. I’m not sure what to say about this one because the main story (surprisingly enough, about a cheerleader) is a garbled mess. I was intrigued at the start, after I had read the parts that were in order, and then pages started repeating and suddenly it was over. I’m hoping that he has reprinted this thing, or plans to, otherwise I couldn’t recommend this to anyone. Which really sucks, because I liked his other two comics quite a bit, and I liked most of the rest of the stories in here too. One tells of a childhood story of why he has a red mark on his nose today, one is a short wordless tale about a bike, and the last is an adapted poem by W. B. Yeats. Like I said, if this has been reprinted. it looked like a good main story and it’s only a buck. If it hasn’t been reprinted, unless you’re a fan of banging your head against walls, I’d skip it. Contact info is up there for his other fantastic, coherent books….
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Boxer #1 Now Available! $3
This is the first issue of a new regular series by Lonnie, although “regular” in the small press comics world could be interpreted in a number of ways. Two comics in a year can be considered regular, so we’ll see what happens. And, not to give anything away or anything, but keeping the same title for the rest of the series might be a bit tough. There are three stories in here. The first is about a boxer who’s lost faith in the world, the second about a young girl whose mother has killed herself, and the last about life and death and everything after. This was a really great read, and I recommend it for anybody who happens to be going to SPX this weekend (you lucky bastards), but it also felt a bit like a punch to the gut. A bit depressing, if you will, what with all the death and futility of it all. If you’re looking for something happy I’m sure there’s something with puppies on this site somewhere, but if you’re looking for a solid comic, well, here it is. Contact info is up there, it’s $2.99.
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April 22, 2010
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Tell Tale Signs Now Available! $1
There aren’t many comics where I could honestly say that the author has ingeniously used street signs to tell a story. Well, I can for this one. This is the story of a man who goes out, gets drunk, hits on a woman, and then wanders off. Any more than that and it’s ruined, and this is one of the tougher books to sample because what do you pick from a book with no words and have it make sense? Oh well, who said this had to make sense? This book is only $1 (which is pretty amazing, considering how professional this book looks), and it was a great idea done to perfection. Here’s an e-mail address, or check out the website, maybe you can find more there…
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Posted by Kevin
April 22, 2010
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Hutjack’d!
Really, what can you say about a book that’s prefaced with “annoying stories” right on the cover? Luckily I liked the book anyway, but where do you go from there? The main story in here is another one of those meandering stories I like so much, this one about a peasant family, a self-absorbed reality show, a self-absorbed celebrity, a ninja bionic suicide jockey (with more than a touch of the old hardboiled detective stories to him), and one of the sleazy check-cashing places. How do they all come together to save Christmas? Well, if you don’t get this I guess you’ll never find out (note: this story has nothing to do with Christmas). After that you have a short piece on whether or not you feel weird right now, and another about a day in the life, the whole life and that one good Sonic Youth song. I thought they had one good album (Daydream Nation), but what do I know? $2
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