Smith, Rick – Shuck Comics #1 (with Tania Menesse)

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Shuck Comics #1

For those of you who wonder if it’s better to send me one comic in your series or a whole bundle of them, take note (and no, this isn’t just a sneaky way for me to get free comics, although I do like free comics…). The review for this series was going to be positive with an “if” thrown in before I got about halfway through the second issue. See, there’s a certain style of talking that is used in these comics that, at first glance, is annoying as all hell. To me, anyway. About halfway through the second issue I realized that I wasn’t even noticing it anymore, and after I was done with the third one I was enjoying it quite a bit. You’ll see what I mean when you read the samples, or go to his website and read all the samples there. This issue is about Halloween and the preparations this goat-headed main character does to entertain the dead people who are going to be eating at his house. No intro, no idea who these people are or what’s going on, and that’s just fine. A funny, unique issue. I don’t know where this guy (and his incredible artist, Tania Menesse) came from, but I’m sure glad they did.