Baumann, Suzanne – Turtleneck Boy #3

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Turtleneck Boy #3 (edited by Suzanne)

It’s probably not fair for me to keep reviewing Suzanne’s older comics, as she’s done better stuff since, but hey, these are still almost universally good.  That makes it OK, right?  This time around Suzanne gathered up some friends, fellow artists and people she passed in the street and asked them to illustrate a conversation in their head, either using Turtleneck Boy as a conversational companion or inventing somebody of their own.  The only one of these people I’ve heard of is Mike Carroll (who can be found elsewhere on this site), who does a short but amusing piece about one of his Kernals being crammed into a turtleneck.  Other than that there’s Carol Pond asking why people bother demonstrating against causes when it won’t change anything, Yul Tolbert talks about a privately financed mission to Mars, Gary Freeman messes with the concept and Paully Moonbeam (if that is his real name) discusses the origins of life while drawing a primitive but strangely enchanting pair of pants.  Then there’s Suzanne, stealing the show with her bits, as she talks about the shape of clouds, tells an Oprah joke that flew right over my head (maybe it made sense in 2000) and has one other page that was so wonderful that it was automatically the sample.  See for yourself!  This is a measly $.50, and all I can do is hope that you people send her dollars every now and then for comics.