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Kressbach, Karl – Chromosome Crossroads #2

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Chromosome Crossroads #2 Now Available! $2

If you’re going to have a comic about incest, this is about as good a title as you could have. It’s the story of a family of a mother, brother, father, sister, and daughter, and an awful lot of those people are able to claim more than one of those titles in regards to the same family member. It’s creepy, sure, and it’s easy to lose track of who is who even with the handy introduction, but there’s a little bit of bizarre charm in the way that some of these people relate to each other. Little things like showing off local landmarks, when viewed in the larger context of what a weird world the live in, come off as surprisingly poignant. Or maybe I’m just an emotional sap today, you be the judge. Anyway, it looks good and it’s original enough to be worth a look. Send an e-mail, there’s at least one other issue of this out there for $2…

Kressbach, Karl – Chromosome Crossroads #1

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Chromosome Crossroads #1 Now Available! $4

This whole “draft” business deserves a bit of an explanation. The second draft is a redrawn version of the first, with the impressive color cover that you see above. It’s a pretty noticeable improvement, although frankly I’ve always been a bigger fan of letting older work stand as is and putting effort into making future work better. The first draft is the same story, with a few pages different here and there, but it doesn’t look as good. So I guess if you’re a cheapskate you can go ahead and get the older version, if you’re looking for the best possible edition of this comic you can get the second draft, and if you’re a comic scholar you can get both versions to compare and contrast. Everything clear now? Update: Karl says that he redrew it because he has a much longer story in mind, in case you were wondering.