Purvis, Leland – Pubo #1

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Pubo #1

Here’s another one of those random buys of mine. I don’t get much from Dark Horse since Sin City stopped coming out and Paul Chadwick stopped doing anything of note with Concrete, so I usually only take a cursory glance through their page for pre-orders. I saw this sitting there and it looked interesting, and that’s more than enough chit-chat out of me about meaningless crap. I swear, maybe I should hire an editor or something… Anyway, Pubo. The first issue is apparently going to set up a larger story, as we are only given a few tidbits about the creature. We’re not even sure that he’s human yet, although he seems to be an altered man. The story starts with some people transporting Pubo back from Tokyo to the U.S. You can see on the cover that he escapes, so I’m not giving anything away. From there it gets even stranger, with Pubo talking to all kinds of forest creatures and a strange man who offers to help, but only in the cryptic, useless way that smart people always seem to offer in stories. It’s a good little story, although Pubo seems like the type to possibly degenerate into a character that does nothing but shout catch phrases, so here’s hoping it’s not headed that way. Worth a look, although you might be better off waiting for the whole thing to come out so you can read it all at once. Here’s his website, find out more about the guy, won’t you?