Vukojevich, Anthony – Chick Magnet #1

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Chick Magnet #1

Well, in case you were wondering if the authors are starting to blend together for me, the answer is yes. I did the other review a few weeks ago and saw this one when I was looking through my older comics for stuff to review. The name looked slightly familiar but that was about it. Turns out that I’ve had both of these for several months (I actually bought them at the same store and I never connected them). This is the guy you people are trusting to show them new and wonderful comics, remember that. My brain could fall completely out of my head at any moment… Anyway, this will give me a chance to compare something other than a mini against of one of these Robot Publishing people, right? As to my reaction to this one, I’m conflicted. There were parts of it that were OK, but most of it read like a secret journal that I wasn’t supposed to be peeking into. Oh, granted, the story was just about an interviewer (an old acquaintance of the protagonist) wearing a Catholic schoolgirl outfit and talking to a television variety host. He’s worried about a co-host escaping prison and killing him, among other things, and they drink a lot and talk about this fact. That’s what it was on the surface. What it looked like to me was that he was showing his schoolgirl fetish to the world. Sure, you’d have a hard time finding a heterosexual male anywhere who wasn’t at least a little turned on by that look, but this was all over the place and constant. Throw in a whole lot of bad puns and the bad kind of outweighs the good. The art is still nice to look at. I liked his stuff in his other book and it’s just fine here too. The job of a #1 (at least when a #2 is planned) is that it has to make the reader really want to see what happens next, and I didn’t really care with this one. But I finally do have an address so you can ask this guy for his comic (I assume he has The Envelope Licker too). It’s 4324 Purtell Drive, La Canada, CA 91011.