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Null and Void #6 Now Available! $1.50

Let’s see, this comic is being reviewed on 1/25/09, years after I read the issues before or after this, meaning that I have just about no idea what led up to this issue or what comes after it outside of reading my own ancient reviews.  Meaning that this review will be even less informed than usual, so be warned.  There are basically two stories going on here (and I’m going to take the easy way out and treat this as a stand alone issue), one involving a young woman going to see a dopey car crash movie with a dopey guy while her while her much cooler friend (with an obvious crush) wonders what she’s thinking, the other dealing with the mutual theft of high school mascots and symbols as a way to “stick it” to the other side.  There are a few moments of fun, but making fun of car crash movies comes across as more than a little dated, as us folks in the future are much bigger fans of juvenile vampire movies.  And I have no idea how this comic gets us to #7, as based on my review that was a dark and somber issue and this one ends with the promise of a good old fashioned chase scene to come.  Probably still worth it for the presence of a few funny moments, and what has this man been up to in terms of comics?  I’ll have to look into that…

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Null & Void #5

I didn’t like this one as much as the other ones, and I think it’s for a fairly simple reason: it was all set in a house. I know, the title of the story indicated that that would be the case, and it was interesting, it just seemed like there wasn’t much going on. And the spelling errors, they are easily fixed. Really. Just have somebody else read it before you print it or do a spellcheck (and I don’t mean to single Donovan out, as there weren’t THAT many spelling errors, it’s just such a simple thing to fix). The story is that Nigel and Jack have a pretty typical day, with Nigel’s Grandma giving him a hard time because a female friend of his stays at his house to get away from her abusive mother and Jack fighting with his sister. Some funny dialogue and the art just keeps getting better, with the exception (WARNING: EXTREME PICKINESS ALERT) of one panel where Jack has a bunch of oddly-drawn bubbles surrounding his head. This is one of those comics that’s better read in clumps rather than single issues, but it’s still a good book. Contact info is up there…

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Null & Void #7 Now Available! $1.50

You know, there really ought to be a law: if you’re only going to put out one or two books a year and if those books are supposed to maintain some kind of a consistent storyline, you really should put some kind of synopsis somewhere in the book. Seriously, it’s a fairly simple thing to do and it would enrich the reading experience immensely. It’s been a long time since I’ve read #6 (even though there’s strangely no review of it, which I’ll fix one of these days), and whatever happened in that one is way past hazy to me. This one is easily the saddest of the Null and Void bunch, as it’s set almost entirely in a hospital, and the bits that aren’t there are getting ready for a funeral. I’d love to recommend this to you, as it’s still a pretty good story about family and dealing with death (even if only in a peripheral fashion), but I just can’t. If you haven’t read the other issues of this series, this probably won’t mean that much to you. Check out some other issues (as I really liked the earlier ones), then this might all make a bit more sense. Contact info is around here somewhere, this is $1.50 and it’s also in the online store, if you were interested…