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Broken #1

Ah, my first crappy memory test from SPACE.  I think this is a photocopied version of a fancier mini (color, that is, with a fancier cover) and this was a copy Kris gave me for review purposes.  Or that’s a completely different comic and I shouldn’t even be bringing that up on this page.  I don’t see this on his website, but this is new to 2009, so it might even be one of those books that gets made specifically for a convention.  Um, anyway, what difference does it make?  This is, as the title indicates, a mini about despair, depression, wondering why you should bother going on.  The first chunk is the internal dialogue between a man as he runs into an ex (and in this case I should point out that the “ex” seems to be “ex-wife”).  It’s damned near pitch perfect in its honesty, as his thoughts range from hatred to only wishing to live because HE is still alive (clearly the new boyfriend) to still being sadly in love with the woman.  The verbal response, however, is how these things usually play out in real life.  The second part of the book deals with a sad lonely man as he lives his days being constantly harassed by his inner demons.  He imagines the disgust that the rest of the world must feel for him, how the highlight of his day is the hope that he might get the cute bank teller in line, and how he dreads going home alone to his apartment at the end of each day.  If you’re looking for a pick-me-up this probably wouldn’t be a good idea, but it’s a smartly written book that’s downright brutal in its honesty.  $1