{"id":29299,"date":"2025-11-04T11:29:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=29299"},"modified":"2025-11-02T11:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:47:22","slug":"canini-brian-airbag-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=29299","title":{"rendered":"Canini, Brian – Airbag #4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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I recently watched all of the Treehouse of Horror episodes of The Simpsons (well, re-watched the first dozen or so, watched the rest for the first time), so maybe it’s just because they’re fresh in my mind, but that’s what came instantly to mind after reading this. These issues are also Brian’s chance to create whatever stories he wants without necessarily thinking about a long term plan, just like those episodes. I say that and I’ll probably end up figuring out around #12 or so that he had a master plan all along. Anyway! This is another collection of short stories, although I think at least a few of the characters have appeared in some of his other comics. First up is the longest story in here (called Basement Machine; it takes up exactly half of the comic), dealing with a woman who’s spiraling because of recent break-up before starting to hear an odd but insistent noise in her basement. How far would you go to uncover the mystery behind something like that? Speaking as someone who’s currently living in a house where the basement locks from my side, I personally would have given up long before she did. There’s one quick but poignant story in here about how a bookshelf changes over time and what is heard by that shelf over the years, and then the next story covers the rest of the comic. It deals with a bullied boy who does some quick math in his head (based off of comic book super hero origin stories) and decides that if he rolls around in poison ivy, he’ll become Poison Ivy Man. Is he correct? I’ll let you discover that part, but this was also a solid story about a quiet kid who tries to do things the right way to get the bullies to like him while not being a total pushover. Altogether it’s another solid issue of Airbag, and it’s another one that I’d recommend. These are also great if you see him at a convention, since they’re self-contained. I mean, I’d also recommend all 22ish issues of Plastic People, but one of those options is significantly more of a financial commitment than the other one. $10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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