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Stanley, David – Outside #7

April 26, 2010

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Outside #7

So, for those of you keeping track out there, that first review up there was for Outside #5, the other one apparently wasn’t an issue of Outside, and this is #7. Not like it’s rocket science or anything, I just wanted to make sure that everybody was clear. The bulk of this one is a story called The Land of Misplaced Objects, which begins as a man is letting himself be hypnotized in order to find some lost paperwork and ends up basically walking through a graveyard of his life and all the things he’s left behind over the years. It was a very quiet, thoughtful and simple story, which made the whole comic worth a look, in my opinion. Other than that you have a sketchbook page, a one page strip and a brief two page story of how the universe began. Nothing to set the world on fire, I guess, but I liked the first story a lot. Contact info is up there, this one is $1.50.

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Stanley, David – In A Rut

April 26, 2010

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In A Rut

This is about 3/4 (judging from the website, anyway) of an issue, so anything I say here is subject to change. It’s disjointed right now, obviously, but this sample showed some potential. This is the story of a family, basically, as they go through their day. There’s a young boy who’s starting to get interested in girls, his older sister who chats with her friends about boys, and their mom, who’s trying to help her friend fight off the unwanted advances of her boss. It could go either way from there, either bringing all this together into a coherent story or maybe making it even more muddled, who knows? This is the fifth issue of an ongoing series, so I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that it’s going to make more sense when it’s all together. It’s OK, worth a look anyway, and I think it was $1.

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Stanley, David – The Sins of the Archons

April 22, 2010

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The Sins of the Archons

You know, I can’t say that I’ve thought about it much before David Stanley, but why not use the cover page to keep on telling the story? Sure, I guess some covers look pretty cool, but when you’re dealing with a tiny mini, why not squeeze some more story into it? I think he had a good idea. This one is all about the creation myth, specifically how the Earth was created and the story behind Adam and Eve. The twist is that these are Gnostic creation myths, even though they sound an awful lot like the ones in the Bible. Oh no, could it be that the Bible isn’t literally true? Sorry, not to offend any of you fundamentalist types out there, but those people probably just ignore any information that conflicts with their tiny worldview anyway. It’s interesting, and tiny, and the gods in here resemble the Old Testament God a whole bunch, at least in terms of pettiness and anger. It’s probably $1, it’s an interesting read and it doesn’t have a proper cover! Run for your lives! Contact info is up there…