Southworth, Barry – Toxic Comix #6

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Toxic Comix #6

OK, this has made it to #6, so I’m allowed to be a bit more hostile than I was in previous reviews. The lettering is terrible. I’m not sure if it’s the copier or what, but I shouldn’t have to shove my eyeball onto the page to make out what they’re talking about. Spelling and major grammatical errors are OK in the first few issues of a book, but you really have to take care of that. And center the pages! I don’t know if that’s Kinko’s thing or something that’s easily corrected, but it’s distracting. There’s no “e” in “having”, I’m not even sure how you could get “that’t” instead of “that’s”, etc. Type the script up in Word or some other program that has a spellchecker. It’s that simple. Might take you 15 minutes, and you won’t have people like me bitching about something that is so easily corrected. The actual story isn’t bad at all. It’s about a man who slowly poisons his pregnant girlfriend, causing her to miscarry, and his punishment in the afterlife. Look, at the very least, every issue should be a visual improvement over the previous one. I know there’s little chance of serious financial reward in this comics world and that everything is done for the love of the genre, but be pessimistic about it. Find something in every issue that could be better and improve on it. I don’t mean this to be a rant against Barry, as he’s done some good work, but this could apply to plenty of creators out there. If you don’t mind a lot of needless errors with your good story, then I recommend this. If it’s too much for you in the end, well, here’s hoping he learns from this and puts together a better book next time. Contact info is up there, it’s $1.50.

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