Saturday, August 07, 2004
From The Rack Reviews:
Demo #8, Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan, AiT/PLANETLAR. "Mixtape" is a great read, and Becky's art on the last few pages, including the montage of Jess and the tape ribbon, is some of the best, most powerful wordless pages that Demo has introduced. I have all eight issues now, but haven't read them all (I think #5 and #6 remain unread), and "Mixtape" is probably my second favorite of those I have read. I love the standalone art and in this issue it seemed especially poignant. Demo stories remind me a lot of some of my own short stories, and I think that's why I've taken a hankering for the series. A-
Jack Staff #2, Paul Grist, Image. Yes, this one is a little bit old, but since #5 only recently came out, it's still fairly new, if only in terms of numbering. The color -- wow! -- maybe I was a bit too inebriated at the time, but they really jumped off the page. And it made me wonder about Kane being published in color, but that series is better in black and white. I still haven't read the first series, so maybe I'm not used to the story. But it really seemed to jump around a bunch, and it left me a little confused. B
Love Fights #10, Andi Watson, Oni. I'm not a particularly huge fan of Watson's, but I have seen some of his stuff, and I've liked most of what I've seen. A solid issue, but I wasn't enthralled with it. Maybe I need to re-read it. B-
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