Fagan, Matt – Love #4

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Love #4

Aspiring comic folk, THIS is how you do a recap for a series. Obviously this is #4, meaning that some probably important events have come before this issue. On the front inside cover, Matt said that a lot of important things happened in the first few issues and he hopes the reader hasn’t missed them, but just in case they did, he goes on to mention just about everything you could need to know, while still leaving enough room for curiosity that people would still want to check out the earlier stories. Kudos, Mr. Fagan. As for the rest of the comic, this is a behemoth of a mini. This issue deals mostly with the lives of Jack and Pokie, two lovers and the main characters, as Pokie gets arrested for having a naked Flash run down the street and Jack composes and puts on a play about a zombie unicorn and the virgin who’s the only person that can see it. Lots of other minor characters flit in and out, which would have been confusing if it wasn’t for that amazing recap of the past issues. These are done mostly in a page by page format, with something vaguely resembling a punchline at the end of the page, until they get to the actual play, then it’s damned near a mini on its own. All told, this comic works in all sorts of ways. It works as a relationship book, it works as a comedy and hell, it even works on an inspirational level, as the fact that these two characters are able to get their bizarre artistic visions made into reality is downright inspiring. $3