Tanner, Jamie – Amber

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Amber

To those of you who think my opinions my be a bit dense at times, let me prove how right you are: I just now got the fact that these comics, while maybe not necessarily parts of a large cohesive story, definitely have characters that bleed over from comic to comic. If you’re sitting around with a pile of Jamie Tanner comics this is the most obvious thing in the world to you, although in my defense I’ve been getting about one of these a year. This comic is about a young man who drinks himself to death but hangs around as a ghost, so he decides to keep drinking. The only way this is possible is to inhabit the bodies of other people until they drink themselves to death, which never seems to take very long with a ghost inhabiting them. Meanwhile the whole town has been flooded and most people are already dead anyway. And that robot bird, Christ, the look in his eye on that last panel is going to haunt my dreams for weeks. It’s really a melancholic comic, with the whole town underwater and everybody else sitting around in bars there’s a sense of hopelessness that permeates the whole thing. Also in here are that dog and the robot sitting at the bar, and I believe the mannequin from one of the earlier minis. Pick up everything Jamie has available and start drawing connections, I have yet to see anything resembling a bad comic from this guy…$3