Brinkmann, Tom – Pork Belly #4

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Pork Belly #4

Technically this is part of Dan Taylor’s Pork Belly series, but as he doesn’t seem to have anything to do with this (other than publishing it), I won’t put his name in the subject line.  Probably not even worth mentioning that, but I wanted to work Dan’s name in here somewhere.  This is, as the cover indicates, an “All Brinkmann issue,” featuring eight images of varying levels of “what the hell?” I mean that in the best possible way.  I generally think calling art “psychedelic” is a lazy way to describe it, but I’m at a loss as to how else I should describe this.  The issue contains an image of a trippy clown face from 1970, a melting face, flying body parts and the sampled image.  Everything else is up to you to figure out, as I have no idea, but I do know that it is invariably interesting as can be.  If you like your comics to be a visual blast, step right up ladies and gents!  If you like a thoughtful story that builds up to a satisfying conclusion, I’d say you have plenty of other options around this site… $1