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avramThe second Kane book, Rabbbit Hunt, is really good, though the flashbacks are still a bit confusing. (Hint: The Flashback scenes all have a thick black band running down the middle of the page.) Grist combines comedy and drama very smoothly. Details establish that New Eden is located in the US, but occasional Britishisms (“plasters” instead of “bandaids”, or “bandages” for the trademark-suit averse) crop up. I haven’t found books three or four at Cosmic or Midtown, or the Brooklyn branch of St Marks (which used to be Metro Comics). I haven’t looked in Forbidden Planet yet, or Jim Henley’s, or the Manhattan St Marks. Does Village Comics still exist?
I’d been looking forward to Heaven’s War, Micah Harris’s and Michael Gaydos’s story about a spiritual battle between Aleistair Crowley and the Inklings. The actual comic turns out a bit dry and talky. It’s pretty clearly heavily inspired by Moore and Campbell’s From Hell, but Harris lets his narrative sections just drag.
Midnight Mover is a crime drama with strong sexual elements (still the equivalent of an R rating, though — tits get shown, and people having sex, but no actual visible penetration or showing of below-the-belt naughty bits), since the plot revolves around the sex trade and porn movies. The plot works as a story, though the ending is odd and abrupt. The art is clean and attractive. Yet I couldn’t get excited about this comic. (Also, the editing seems to be non-existent. Not only the usual “you’re” instead of “your”, but “formerly” instead of “formally”.)
I’ve read about halfway through the first volume of Shaman King, yet another imported manga title. I haven’t been liking most of the recent crop of imported manga (but then, I’m not really the target audience), but this one’s not bad. Yeah, some of the usual tedious manga tropes show up (the protagonist’s sidekick seems just too easily amazed, and emotes at 11), but the premise is clever, and the pages put together a bit better than is typical for manga. But now I’ve got a distracting fragmentary parody of “Oh, Better Far to Live and Die” running through my head.
I’d been looking forward to Heaven’s War, Micah Harris’s and Michael Gaydos’s story about a spiritual battle between Aleistair Crowley and the Inklings. The actual comic turns out a bit dry and talky. It’s pretty clearly heavily inspired by Moore and Campbell’s From Hell, but Harris lets his narrative sections just drag.
Midnight Mover is a crime drama with strong sexual elements (still the equivalent of an R rating, though — tits get shown, and people having sex, but no actual visible penetration or showing of below-the-belt naughty bits), since the plot revolves around the sex trade and porn movies. The plot works as a story, though the ending is odd and abrupt. The art is clean and attractive. Yet I couldn’t get excited about this comic. (Also, the editing seems to be non-existent. Not only the usual “you’re” instead of “your”, but “formerly” instead of “formally”.)
I’ve read about halfway through the first volume of Shaman King, yet another imported manga title. I haven’t been liking most of the recent crop of imported manga (but then, I’m not really the target audience), but this one’s not bad. Yeah, some of the usual tedious manga tropes show up (the protagonist’s sidekick seems just too easily amazed, and emotes at 11), but the premise is clever, and the pages put together a bit better than is typical for manga. But now I’ve got a distracting fragmentary parody of “Oh, Better Far to Live and Die” running through my head.