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Burn All Stations

If you’re looking for a simple book, or something to validate any justifications you have for being OK with this shitty world, avoid this at all costs. It’ll challenge you, confuse you, and make you think, not necessarily in that order. It’s the story of a young man named Jimmy walking through life, free associating about everything he sees, decrying the world as a whole and just trying to get by. Along the way he deals with horniess, an old revolutionary ripped out of time, boredom and a bullet to the head. These are the sort of comics that defy any sort of conventional review, as the story, although seemingly linear, takes you all over the place and has no interest in settling things down with a nice ending. It’s poetry, but not the standard rhyming kind. This is the stuff that makes you question it all, or wonder why you stopped questioning it. It hit me while I was in the right mood, obviously, as this is not a lazy day type of comic. There is, however, plenty here to reward those who are willing to dig, from the sometimes dense prose to the clumpy and black artwork. This is also one of those cases where the website will tell you everything you need to know, as he has a blog there as well a daily strip. Do a bit of digging there to see if this for you, but with the almost total lack of a social conscience in most comics, this did me a world of good. $5