Echavarria, Luis – Empanadas

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Empanadas

Whatever you were guessing from that cover, you can most likely forget about it. Which is fine, as it wouldn’t have been nearly as entertaining if this was a mini comics purely about empanadas, although I wouldn’t put it past Luis to still make it a damned entertaining comic. The story in this one deals with a man who purchased a house that formerly belonged to a member of the mafioso, which I guess is roughly equivalent to the mafia here. Anyway, this man sees odd shadows, has strange problems with the house, and eventually sees where the shadow seems to be leading him. And that’s the wall I run into as a reviewer, as this book is damned tiny and it’s not possible to say much more without ruining the ending. I will say that my impression of Luis as something of a comics genius continues, at least in part because this is another one of those fold-open books that shows a giant empanada when you finish reading it. It could have been any of a number of things, but throwing an empanada there works beautifully. There’s a sizable and growing pile of his comics to choose from, and maybe you’d like to start with something heftier, but I loved every last bit of this tiny thing and am thinking about hanging that big picture of an empanada on my wall. Which wouldn’t make sense to anybody but me, but it’s still damned tempting. No price listed, but the fact that it’s all in color has me thinking at least $3.

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