Smith, Rick – Shuck Comics #3 (with Tania Menesse)

April 26, 2010

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Shuck Comics #3

The obligatory “origin issue”, done with a bit of a twist. See, with most origin issues we have some idea of what’s going on with the main character. I guess we know a little about Shuck, but most of it has to do with his search for his wife and that he watched souls for a while. The website has an issue listing (future, of course) up to 12, so they have a lot to tell us yet about this whole thing. Beautiful to look at and intelligently written, you can’t ask for much more out of a comic. I wasn’t sure what to expect out of this series and I wasn’t sure at all that I was going to like it from the descriptions, but I was completely won over. Seek this out, enjoy, and then sell these first issues on eBay for a zillion dollars in 5 years when these two are incredibly rich and famous. All the contact info you’ll need is on their website too, so just go there is you have any other questions.

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Smith, Rick – Shuck Comics #2 (with Tania Menesse)

April 26, 2010

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Shuck Comics #2

This is the best one in the bunch, at least so far. Shuck has to deal with what’s happening with his old job of watching over souls when they all escape from the creature that was supposed to replace him. If this all sounds too gothic or weird for some of you, it’s really not. It has its own view of things, and this guy is confident that he’s going to be around for a while because he only reveals a few tiny things per issue, but this could be read and enjoyed by just about everybody. What is it these days, 5 issues and then you put them into a graphic novel? If and when he does that, I’ll be at the head of the line telling you all to get it. This is the kind of stuff that’s better in one sitting, but still enough of an ongoing series that you’re not annoyed waiting a month between issues. Yes, you read that right, this book has started off monthly. I don’t know if they can keep up that kind of pace, as it’s been known to make people crazy and I wouldn’t mind having a late issue or two as long as the quality is the same when it does come out. Still, it’s an admirable goal, and at least possible with two people working on it.

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Smith, Rick – Shuck Comics #1 (with Tania Menesse)

April 26, 2010

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Shuck Comics #1

For those of you who wonder if it’s better to send me one comic in your series or a whole bundle of them, take note (and no, this isn’t just a sneaky way for me to get free comics, although I do like free comics…). The review for this series was going to be positive with an “if” thrown in before I got about halfway through the second issue. See, there’s a certain style of talking that is used in these comics that, at first glance, is annoying as all hell. To me, anyway. About halfway through the second issue I realized that I wasn’t even noticing it anymore, and after I was done with the third one I was enjoying it quite a bit. You’ll see what I mean when you read the samples, or go to his website and read all the samples there. This issue is about Halloween and the preparations this goat-headed main character does to entertain the dead people who are going to be eating at his house. No intro, no idea who these people are or what’s going on, and that’s just fine. A funny, unique issue. I don’t know where this guy (and his incredible artist, Tania Menesse) came from, but I’m sure glad they did.

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Hurd, Damon & Smith, Rick – Temporary #1

April 24, 2010

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Temporary #1 (Damon with Rick Smith)

How appropriate that on the last day I use Microsoft Frontpage to update the site (if all goes well with the site update, that is) the damned thing crashes and eats my review for this comic. It was great too, the best review I’ve ever written, and now nobody gets to see it! Or it sucked and now I get the chance to make it up. Anyway, this is a comic by two people that I like a whole lot, and it’s about a subject (temping) that I’m very familiar with, having basically done that for many years now, although I have been hired at a place or two in that time. The story here is that a temp gets hired for some data entry and ends up at a place that has people with hollow computers, suicidal workers and people hanging out inside the fax machine. What’s going on? Who are those people? Does it matter as long she gets paid on time? It’s great to start a series with a whole bunch of mysteries, and this one is chock full of them. If you’ve enjoyed Rick’s Shuck series or any of Damon’s work, I can’t see how you wouldn’t like this book. Here’s the website and here’s hoping Frontpage doesn’t eat my review again…

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