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I Belong to Jonas #10

Well, if this comic proved one thing, it’s this: cancer can be funny, at least when it’s only infected a mouse. Of course, Linc goes to so much trouble to make these characters seem likable that it’s a bit of cop-out to imply that it wouldn’t have been as funny with human characters, but I am nothing if not a walking contradiction. Anyway, this is the end of the latest batch of stories, although I suppose more could easily come from here. I hope they do, as these little stories are a blast, and it’s not like you could run out of mice to tell stories about in the world, and you just can’t beat the $.25 price tag on these things. One more time with the address, and I’ll get any e-mail or website up here as soon as I see it: 5638 Cranston St., Portage, MI 49002

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I Belong to Jonas #9

Here it is, the penultimate issue! Granted, it’s not as big a deal when they’re all tiny issues and I know the whole story is already sitting here in front of me, but it’s still fun to say “penultimate”. Go ahead, try working that into a conversation naturally, it can’t be done. Anyway, that tumor has gotten completely out of control of this one, one of the mice has built a castle of shit and things seem to be building towards a dramatic conclusion. And might I just add, I don’t think anybody has ever drawn a more gross tumor than this one, so kudos to Linc for that…

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I Belong to Jonas #8

“It was like an epiphany. God had crashed my ass party, and it felt good.” MAN, is it tempting to just leave that as the review, but I’ll ramble on for a bit instead. That’s my favorite quote from this one, or possibly any of them, or possibly any comic ever. In this one you have some cancer progression, a new, fancy mouse on the scene, and that nasty tumor. Still funny (obviously), still worth checking out, still incredibly cheap…

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I Belong to Jonas #7

This time around we have mice sex and what the mice think is happening to them when they get taken out of the cage to get discarded. Oh, and how’s that cancer coming along anyway? Ew. Funny stuff again, even if I can’t shake the impression that I’m reading a book one page at a time. I guess that’s tempered a bit by the fact that mice have such short lives (especially THESE mice), so it’s not like this is going to turn into a great modern epic or anything…

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I Belong to Jonas #6

OK, this time around, I’m going to review each of these issues, mostly because I crammed it all into one review last time. Chances are they’re going to be short reviews, as they’re short minis (funny how that works), but I’ll ramble about each of them all the same. This one starts off with a mouse named Keith introducing himself to his fellow captive mice. They’ve all been picked up by a hippie, who we don’t see, and given new hippie names. Oh, and one of them has cancer. Slow build-up again, I’m guessing, but if it’s anything like the last bunch it’ll be worth it. No website or e-mail that I can see, just the address that’s referenced above, but these are an extremely cheap $.25 each…

I Belong to Jonas #4

I feel dirty. Let me explain before I even get started that Linc sent me issues #1-5, which I believe makes this a complete series. Why aren’t I reviewing them one at a time? Well, they’re tiny individually, and they’re only $.25 each, so you can buy them all for the price of a very cheap regular comic and get the whole story. And you really, really should, because you’ll miss the whole point of the thing if you just get the first issue or two to check it out. Consider yourself warned! This is the story of a family of mice in a little aquarium. Everything is sunshine and rose petals for the first few issues, to the point that I was having trouble keeping my lunch down. Then the series starting to get awfully realistic in portraying the lives of mice, and then I had trouble keeping my lunch down for an entirely different reason. Look, this takes a few issues to build up to any kind of a payoff, but once it does, it is well worth the effort. No e-mail address, which sucks in this day and age, but anybody who sends $1.25 to this guy (plus a little bit for postage, I’d wager) won’t be disappointed! 5638 Cranston St., Portage, MI 49002.