Stephens, Craig – Working Stiff #3

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Working Stiff #3

Watch out, name change! No idea why, as Blue Collar was a fine title. Oh well, whatever float his boat. And if anybody out there read comics as a kid (a fairly likely proposition, as you’re here, aren’t you?) then that cover just screams nostalgia. Pretty much all the Marvel comics when I started reading them had covers like that, something very dramatic that made you just have to pick it up… but then the cover image never happens in the book! Cheater! Ahem. Anyway, the Negotiator storyline continues here, and it seems to be veering a bit into schlock silliness, at least with some of the dialogue. Whether or not that’s a bad thing is entirely up to you. To me, this is looking like a longer story, so I’m still waiting to see how it all plays out when it’s read together. Also in here is a silly story about the devil appreciating a young punk’s artwork, a cautionary tale about getting too smart for your own good, a parody of those ads about a skinny guy getting sand kicked in his face on the beach, and a genuinely odd note that Craig apparently received after doing some digging under an overpass. Pretty good mix of stuff here again, and I have a couple of issues to review that aren’t part of this series, so I should be getting a much better idea of what else he’s capable of very soon. Contact info up there, $3!