Free comics, Art School Confidential

Free comics day! bugsybanana and I started at Jim Hanley’s Universe up on 33rd, walked down Brodway to Cosmic Comics on 23rd (which was also having a 30% off sale, so I picked up the first volume of Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha in paperback), and then down to the Forbidden Planet on 13th. My bag was about full, so we skipped St Mark’s Comics and just kept going down to the Angelika to see Art School Confidential.

From what I’ve seen of the comics so far, it looks like most of what I got is new material, short stand-alones actually written for the free comics, rather than the excerpts from regular stories that some companies were passing off a couple of years back. My fave so far is Joel Priddy’s The Preposterous Adventures of IronHide Tom.

Art School Confidential, well, the first half hour or so is pretty hilarious if you’ve been to art school. The rest of the movie suffers from having a mainstream Hollywood plot; there’s a romance plotline that gives the protagonist a lame motivation for his art, and a serial-killer plotline that feels like it belongs in an entirely different movie.