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Arcand, Michelle – See Dick Die (with Duane Cunningham)

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See Dick Die

As you can see from that cover, this one is free, so it’s automatically hard to complain about that. I sampled the shortie in here, so there’s no real need to talk about that, other than to say that the Arsenic Lullaby influence was strong in that one, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Other than that you have a story about a character named Dick getting hit by a bus after he manages to get a free pass to heaven after buying a candy bar from somebody selling them on a street corner. He seems like a real asshole, hence the funny of him getting into heaven so easily. Nothing is ever that easy though, but if I tell you more than that you’ll know the whole story. It’s interesting that Duane draws the “evil” characters and Michelle draws the “good” ones, it’s rare that you get different artists working in the same panels. While it’s entirely possible that anything larger than this would fall apart, I’m intrigued from this small sample. Visit this website for this book and this one to learn more about the creators…

Arcand, Michelle – Being Different

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Being Different (Michelle Arcand only)

Three cheers for the deceptive powers of comics to alter your perceptions! Come on, take a look at that cover before I go on. Tell me that you don’t have a pretty solid preconceived notion of where this one is going to go. Sullen little girl confused and alone, upset about being different, possibly plotting some sort of revenge on her classmates, right? OK, maybe that was just me. But what you really have here is a story about conformity and what it really means to be different. The little girl decides that she wants to make herself different, so she does that by chopping most of her hair off, tying a sock around her head and putting flowers in her hair. She demands that everybody else who wants to be different like her do the exact same thing, and ends up with a following… but why ruin the whole thing? Great stuff, all in color for $1 somehow, I couldn’t recommend this any more highly.