Reinwald, Josh & Rosenberg, Justin – Crass Sophisticate #16

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Crass Sophisticate #16

I know I occasionally bitch about unerased pencil lines in comics, but this one deserves a prize for that horrible habit. I’d say less then half of the pages DON’T have sloppy pencil writing in the word balloons. I know this is an earlier issue for these two, but come on, they had done 15 issues before this one. Anyway, if you can get past that (and even I did eventually) then this is another great issue. This is the story of one of our heroes (I’m not sure which one and damned if I can remember which one of these characters is which at the moment) who gets to a party too early. For anybody who has had this happen to them, you know what a calamity this can be. So he wanders around, trying to strike up a conversation with a few girls who obviously have no interest in him anyway, and things are generally awkward until the actual party kicks in. Once that happens our hero is standing over the keg, meaning that he gets to chat to anybody he likes. He almost gets a compliment but, upon later review, the girl in question was just calling him ugly. Anyway, the party gets busted and our hero somehow ends up in the house all by himself with a keg of beer. Hilarity (or immense sadness, I never can tell) ensues. It’s another funny book, which tells me that they’ve at the very least been keeping this funny for dozens of issues now. It took them an awfully long time to figure out to erase the pencilled in dialogue first, but they did get there eventually in the series. If you think that complaint is a minor quibble then you should have no trouble with this at all. Oh, and I enjoyed the picture of the drunken girls on the back cover. The eyes were blacked out to protect the innocent, but it did help the story to see what exactly they were talking about… $2

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