Claytor, Ryan – And Then One Day #4

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And Then One Day #4

Damn it all! I had a review all ready to go in my head, talking about how this is the best issue of the series, how Ryan has put all of his skills together here to make the best cover to cover read of the series. It even has the best of the fuzzy covers! Then he has to go and ruin the whole thing by saying at the end of the book that this is going to be the last issue of ATOD, if not forever then at least until he gets though with the schooling needed for his master’s degree. So it looks like I can add Ryan to the growing list of comic creators who have given up, “temporarily” of course (because how many of them actually come back to comics with any kind of regularity?), on making comics right around the time that they completely win me over. Oh no, it couldn’t have been after the first issue, when I wasn’t really sure how the idea was going to turn out, he has to wait until things are going about as well as they can go in a diary strip, then bam. Most of this is tongue in cheek, of course, but damn it! He’d better still be this good when he comes back to the book! All that being said, it really is the best of the bunch, the jerk. Strips about working, teaching, trying to get a better job, renting a boat, looking at personal ads, buying a house, all sorts of good stuff in here. Maybe if enough people buy his books he’ll give up on this whole “personal improvement” kick and chain himself to his drawing desk to make comics again… $2