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Marquet, Thomas C. – We Have Big Plans Part Two (Bland Like Water #3)
We Have Big Plans Part Two (Bland Like Water #3)
Hey, what happened to the pictures on the page? Oh well, I’ll fix it some other time. Seriously! This is the dramatic conclusion of the saleman trying to sell safe sand. Well, sort of, anyway. If you’ve ever wanted to see a long sales pitch in action, this is the comic for you! That’s selling the book a bit short, but that is what goes on for most of the comic. His panel composition is still tremendous, and he manages to make what (in theory, anyway) should be a pretty dull story thoroughly entertaining, so it’s obvious that there’s some serious talent at work here. It’s $2, contact info is up there and if somebody comes to this page in a few months and the pictures aren’t fixed, feel free to berate me for it…
Marquet, Thomas C. – We Have Big Plans #1
We Have Big Plans #1
I was hoping that I’d see something from this guy sooner rather than later. He actually sent me this more than a month ago, I’ve just had other stuff that had to come first. This is the first part of a two part story, and it looks like the general idea is that there’s a salesman who’s trying to sell sand in the desert. Not just any sand though, quality sand! It’s a neat concept, although it’s a bit hard to tell if he’s going to be able to pull it off just from the first part. Shades of Seth’s latest work on Palookaville, what with the salesman thing going on. I still love the art and the fact that the panels are all over the place. I’d say to wait until the whole thing comes out to check it out, but it is a neat little story all by itself. It’s $2, contact info is above…
Marquet, Thomas C. – Bland Like Water
Bland Like Water
Ah, where to start. This book looks great. I love the sparse style of drawing that this guy has, and I’ve already said that I’m a big fan of the solid blacks. The story is broken up into a lot of little stories, I guess, but none of them have a title so I can’t really break them up and talk easily about them for you. It doesn’t matter, everything comes back to the beginning in the end and makes sense. It has kind of an early Chris Ware feel to it in his placement of panels and just the way that parts of the book move. A theme of constant searching pervades the book, as well as a strange canonization of conformity at times, but I might be making that up. Regardless, there’s a lot more going on here than what you see on the surface, and it bears repeated readings. This from the man who just bought this, but I think it’s true. This guy has a chance to be great if he keeps putting out minis (or books of any kind) like this, so why don’t you send him a few dollars and support him?
