Wales, Andrew – Eclectic Comics #2

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Eclectic Comics #2

Andrew has narrowed his focus this time around, as there’s only 4 stories here (and one page at the end from his son).  These are all still started from a creative exercise, such as drawing something important to the story (a box) without ever revealing what’s inside, illustrating a quote about turning into a god, illustrating random lines from science fiction novels (which Andrew was able to collect into this story), and a story for an unpublished anthology about losing your lunch.  The story with the box is mostly an unfocused but fun slugfest, the bit about turning into a god was also amusing and had a good punchline, the story based on science fiction quotes was a bit chaotic (as you might expect after reading his creative process) but the bits with General Patriot were amusing at least, and the bit about losing your lunch was about what you’d expect.  And what happened to the Monet story?  “To be continued” indeed.  Maybe in issue #3?  The backgrounds are a little more fleshed out this time around, at least for certain panels, but far too many of them have half formed scribbles where a background should be.  It’s a lot of work, sure, but it does help make the finished product look significantly better.  I have an aesthetic suggestion too: put the creative process descriptions at the back of the book instead of at the front.  That way people could read the stories without any preconceived notions (except for the people who automatically turn to the back of a book first, but there’s no helping those weirdos).  All told it’s an amusing book, something I’m still not totally crazy about but that’s growing on me bit by bit.  $3

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