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Cunningham, Mark – Lucky Comix #6
Lucky Comix #6
Well, I’m probably no closer to finding where this guy currently lives, but at least I was able to post an e-mail address… from 2001. Oh well, you can still buy his stuff at Catastrophe. I wanted very much to like this one (especially after a wonderful editorial to start things off about turning 35 and still doing mostly unnoticed comics), but it left me with the same “bleh” feeling as the last. The Warwold story continues, and I can’t put it any better than he does in the back of the book: “Gratuitous long winded pre-teen sword and sorcery fantasy”. And if that’s a good thing, this book is for you, ast that story takes up the bulk of it, meandering around with the hero and his brain trying to find their way up a mountain, followed by various splash pages of epic battles. It had a few funny moments, in all fairness, but as a whole I could have lived my whole life without reading that. Next up is a story about “real” and “false” people, which is a bit too complicated to go into here, but a pretty good story, if a bit confusing without any sort of recap from previous issues. The last comic here is about Natch being trapped in prison, mostly notable for the giant clown robot/monster/thing that slowly saps his identity. Wrapping the whole thing up is a commentary about the wonder that is Charles Burns, so it’s hard to bitch about that. Overall another so-so issue, with me still hoping that he’s done wonderful things in the years since that I’ve missed. $5
Cunningham, Mark – Lucky Comix #5
Lucky Comix #5
Ah yes, comics that are five years old. No contact info that I would trust as being current (so I just linked to the USS Catastrophe site up there, where I bought this here comic), no real idea if this guy is still putting out comics. I’m going to assume that he is and he didn’t quit to become a CPA four years ago. This is a collection of stories, I think all by Mark except for a complete mish mash of a comic by Claudio Parentela in the middle, of which we will speak no more. First up is a mostly wordless story about a prisoner watching the world go by as he’s transported on a train. A nice melancholy little story that falls off the rails a bit at the end. Then you have another installment (I missed the other ones) of Warworld, a continuing story Mark was doing about a brain in a jar involving all sorts of intrigue. My only complaint about this one is one that I seem to have a lot: please, PLEASE learn to spell. I know it’s not that big a deal to some people, but it bugs the hell out of me, as all it would take it a simple spell check on the computer or, I don’t know, a bit of proof reading. Also in here is a mystery involving two people trapped in different parts of a house and a phantom baby, along with a few one page comics about a Charlie Brownish character that are mostly funny. Maybe I’d have gotten more out of this is if I wasn’t picking it up at #5, but the whole thing didin’t do much for me. I’ll try to get a real website or contact info nailed down, until then you know where to go… $4
