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Miss Fortune

Long, long time readers of the website take note: this is the same “Matt H.” that wrote several issues of a comic called Flame Broiled way back in the day. As is the case for an increasing number of creators, he requested that I shorten his name here in case his students try to Google him. That’s one thing I never would have anticipated when starting this website almost 20 years ago: that so many people would become serious professionals and have concerns about people being able to see their past work. I mean, in hindsight, duh, but it never occurred to me. This is Matt’s first comic in roughly a decade (I think; don’t quote me on that) and it’s a simple enough formula. The hero of the story, Miss Fortune, is constantly being talked into things that she shouldn’t be doing, what with that foreboding name and all. Chunks of the early strips are very static (it looks like Matt used the same cutouts several times), but it gets more involved and frenetic as the strips move along. Subjects include the wisdom of this particular lady holding a baby, nailing a picture to a wall, plugging in a phone charger, dogsitting, feeding a sick man hot soup, or (by the end) just standing around the graveyard. There are some funny bits; the punchline for that final strip in particular was hilarious, as was the bit in the graveyard. Who knows, maybe this will get him back in the comics game. Meanwhile, if you’re curious about his past work, I’d recommend his series in Flame Broiled dealing with the time he met Harvey Pekar, or maybe his attending a horror convention if that’s more up your alley. $6