Suburbia, Liz – Cyanide Milkshake #4

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Cyanide Milkshake #4

You don’t see many mini comics like this any more, or at least I don’t. This is a pile of stories, some as short as a panel or two and some several pages long, and all about a ridiculously wide range of subjects. Liz starts off with a “note from the editor” that’s a rambling rant about whether or not you can stay “punk” after you hit 30 and have a full time job, kids, a mortgage or any combination of all that. Her answer: yes, mostly, but DO something if you’re at all able to keep yourself engaged. That’s simplifying what she said in a big way, but as somebody who’s creeping closer and closer towards 40, it’s hard to argue with her. The stories are all over the place, like I said, but I’ll try my usual trick of summing them all up without giving anything away. There’s her absolutely perfect reaction to getting hassled on the subway, an ad for a literal “Spice” channel, being too hairy for sex (and the reason for all that hair), the life’s journey of an orange, Hulk and his need for pizza, how things are different when a lady has her fly open and nobody tells her, two dogs and their adventures with the law, office supplies and sex, four panels summing up every X-Men comic ever, and the story of a zombie wasteland where the law is somehow still intact. This last one was the longest (it’s even “to be continued”), and it may be going somewhere interesting or it may just be an excuse for violence against zombies and cops. Fun either way! Old folks like me, check it out and remember when minis packed in as many stories as they could possibly fit. Kids, read it and see how it’s meant to be done! Unless you’d rather have one story per comic, in which case I can’t help you. $2