Flint-Somerville, Bryce – The Comic of Brotherly Love

April 23, 2010

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The Comic of Brotherly Love

Now THIS one is funny. No reservations about it. By the way, if you’re ever lost at the start of these reviews, chances are I’m just continuing a point I made in another review on the page, often from months ago. Make sense? Oh well, it doesn’t make that much of a difference. Anyway, there are two stories in this one, both involving two brothers sitting around. One brother is bored, and seems to be a lot dumber than the other brother. The smarter brother is reading a book in both of these stories. The dumber brother is bored, and in both cases decides that he would like to play whatever the other brother is reading. In this case, it’s either a book about Harry Houdini or Mummies. So they decide to play Mummies in one story and Houdini in another story and… I’m about to give the whole thing away. It’s more or less the same gag, sure, but it’s a funny gag, and what more do you want out of a funny comic than that? $2


Flint-Somerville, Bryce – The Genius of Stand Up Squid (with Colin Hurd)

April 23, 2010

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The Genius of Stand Up Squid (with Colin Hurd)

OK, picture a squid doing comedy before an audience of Buddhist monks. If you think that could be funny, you’ll probably love this comic. If you don’t, well, there are probably better things in the world for you to spend your money on. To me it had a few funny moments, even with my longstanding war against puns. Also in here is a “choose your own pun” for a joke with three variants and a brief bit of Comedy 101. So: tiny book, sometimes funny, probably not going to change the planet as we know it. Oh, and I liked the art, even though I only saw anything resembling a facial expression on one page…