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McKinley, Austin – The World is Our Icebox
The World is Our Icebox
This is a collection of what looks like three panel newspaper strips about penguins that was shoved into something that vaguely resembled a story. What you get because of that are really dumb punchlines every three panels or so and a very loose cohesiveness to the story, which doesn’t matter that much anyway. It’s all about penguins, so you have wackiness involving their trying to sweet talk a bag, avoiding a killer whale trying to talk them into the water, and trying to fly a paper airplane. Check out the Shellac Jones stuff if you’re really interested in his work, this isn’t a very good representation in my opinion. Unless the other story I saw was the exception and this is the norm, but I don’t like to think like that. Check out the website, there are a few other comics there too. I also found out on the site that this is a collection of strips. Maybe it’s an internet phenomenon or something that I missed, but I really don’t feel like I missed much this time around…
McKinley, Austin – Shellac Jones: River of Love
Shellac Jones: River of Love
I’ll waste no time telling you about the plot because I’m still trying to figure out how I feel about this. Shellac Jones is a man who’s encased in shellac. A great adventurer, somehow, and someone who has been around for hundreds, if not thousands of years. A man finds him floating along the river and recognizes him, remembers the curse associated with Shellac Jones and decides to take him home anyway. It’s unique, I’ll give it that much. While the comic itself was pretty free from silly spelling errors, the front cover was full of them. Hard to get too down on it for that, but there you go. It’s the first of ten projected issues, so I have no idea where they’re going from here. Some of the dialogue was hokey, as you can undoubtedly see from the cover, but it works. I’m curious to see what happens next, and that’s all you can ask from a first issue. Great art too. It almost looks like a Disney cartoon, but in a good way. It’s $2.50 for this, send money to: Red Feather Flying Car, Co. P.O. Box 48582 Sarasota, FL 34230.
