Steckler, Ben – Unshaven Chi #2/Get Bent #6

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Unshaven Chi #2/ Get Bent #6

Ah, the flip book.  It has made a real mess of this page, that’s for sure.  This review is above Unshaven Chi #4, as it should be, but also above Get Bent #5, which makes no sense.  Ah well, who has time to fix such things?  And to add to the confusion, I sampled the Unshaven Chi cover and took the sampled image from the Get Bent story.  OK, maybe it only bothers me.  The Unshaven Chi chunk of the book (unless it makes to the staple it’s not officially a half) deals with Ben’s new ability to grow a beard at work (after he just shaved it to a moustache to fit with store policy), how he’s lost a little weight and it’s getting noticed by people other than him, America and its collective acceptance of mediocrity, and how easy it is to make an autobio comic.  As for the Get Bent portion, most of it is a fairly ridiculous continuing story about former ska musicians stuck in space (with a cosmic cube parody), which might make more sense if I had the brains to read these in order instead of randomly, and usually spread out over a period of years.  Still, this story is saved by a digression at the beginning involving the death of DeForest Kelly and Ben’s own near-miss at becoming a Trekkie as an adult.  The whole thing is worth a look, but you could tell even he was getting sick of the ska space story, as a good chunk of the pages were full page splash dealies.  Is it still available at this late date?  Probably not, but you never know…

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