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Cornwell, Chris – Questor

April 23, 2010

Questor

Ah, my favorite genre: the indescribable silent mini. I love it so because it gives me a chance to prove my complete lack of insight in interpreting these things. Well, here goes. This starts off with a creature tearing off his umbilical cord. When he looks into the cord, he sees a man on a journey, eventually falling into the mouth of a giant king. The man guts the king and takes his intestine back to the creature from the start of the comic, and anything more I tell you will ruin the whole thing. It’s gorgeous, especially after the two main characters finally meet up, all loops and whorls. It’s also a compelling story, as long as you don’t mind more than a little ambiguity. No price on it, but I’d say $2 at a guess…

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Cornwell, Chris – Spunj Baahb

June 12, 2007

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Spunj Baahb

OK, granted, it’s often bad to judge a book by its cover, but if you can look at that beautiful thing up there and not want to have this immediately, there’s not a whole lot I can say to talk you into it. This is the mostly silent tale of a… creature that looks more than a little bit like a famous cartoon character, seen on every piece of merchandise imaginable over the last five years or so. This creature is riding another underwater beast, but when the riding beast trips, throwing Spunj Baahb off, it sets off a sequence of events with creatures higher and higher up the food chain systematically asserting their will. As always, it’s dangerous for me to venture too far into interpreting exactly what’s happening in these wordless books, but it’s a gorgeous, thoroughly haunting experience, with more than a few of the panels lodged in my brain. This was $4 or $5 at SPACE, find it, buy it, love it, and show it to your young child, niece or nephew if you want this opinion of a popular cartoon character forever altered.