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Mutch, Joanne – Rummblestrips #2
Rummblestrips #2
Before anybody gets offended by the cover for some reason, I should point out that Joanne looks an awful lot like the woman in the center, except she’s been dressed a little more conservatively when I’ve seen her at conventions. This issue is a lot like the first, with a whole lot of dialogue and backstory for what looks a lot like a possible epic. Crash, who is very much not a robot, is on the run from somebody, and Rummble is trying to make a living through her writing while keeping a job where her boss walks all over her. Throw in some wacky cats, the editor for a porn magazine and a moron in the street and you have another solid issue. Things have to start happening eventually in the story, granted, but I’ll stick with my earlier claim that she has an incredible ear for dialogue and that’ll carry her far. It doesn’t hurt that the art’s incredible too. Check out the website, and if you’re incredibly cheap you can just wait a couple of years until the collected edition comes out, as I get the impression that she’s not going to give up on comics any time soon…
Mutch, Joanne – Rummblestrips #1
Rummblestrips #1
Looks like I picked a good book to read first from the Mid-Ohio Con pile. I don’t really know what this book is about yet. Almost everything is left a mystery, with this book basically introducing the two main characters (I’m guessing here) with no real word of who they are, what they’re doing and what’s going on. And you know what? I loved it! The vast majority of the book was spent inside Rummble’s apartment with her talking with the other, um, “person” on the cover, Crash. I don’t know if she was kidding or not but she mentions on the back cover that she’s going to be doing this for #100 issues or so, and I’m fascinated so far. The dialogue is witty and real, the art is great, and I’m more than willing to take the long, slow journey to see what’s going on here. Although, honestly, I’d be happy just reading the characters talking. I read almost the entire thing thinking that there wasn’t any real background story and I was still happy. Visit her website, check out what there is to see.
