Sundstrom, Matt – PDX 100

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PDX 100

Well, this isn’t a good sign. Here I am trying to convince people to fork over the cash needed to keep this website going for another year, and I don’t have a damned thing to say about this comic. This is a gorgeously produced $10 comic that contains 100 drawings of different parts of Portland. And… that’s it. Matt drew different sections and sorted them all into geographical locations, so if you’re a local you can at least flip to a certain section of town to try to find something recognizable. If you’re not a local of Portland and if you really have no interest in the city one way or another, I’m completely comfortable telling you to skip this one. Basing this review purely on technical terms, there isn’t a thing wrong with this comic. I also don’t want this to seem like I’m crapping on Matt, as he’s done other comics that I’ve enjoyed, and I think there’s even another comic of his around here somewhere that I still need to review. It’s just that I don’t see why this comic exists. Looking around on the internets a bit I can see that this was published by a company that just publishes Matt’s books and it’s based out of Portland, so this does make sense in that context. Matt also apparently spent a lot of time wandering the city, as several of the pictures are of what appears to be random houses, so I’m sure the whole thing was a blast for him. Maybe I get stuck too much on price tags, and $10 does seem to be about right for a book of this size and quality. It just seems excessive at a time when so many people are broke and mini comics as a whole are becoming more and more of a luxury purchase. At least give me something to convince people to buy! Ack, I didn’t intend for this level of vitriol, as it’s a mostly harmless book for the world at large and probably quite a nice thing to have if you live in Portland. I’ll shut up now and suggest that you just buy some of his other comics instead. $10