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Cummings, Tyrrell – I Walked With Robot Monster
I Walked With Robot Monster
Is itpossible for something to be a seamless hodgepodge? This comic has all sorts of unrelated one page stories, yet the ongoing story that weaves through the comic (that of a band trying to get their act together and one member snapping and losing his temper with another member) holds the whole thing together beautifully somehow. His art has grown on me in these two issues too. There’s a smudgy chaos there at times to a casual observer, but a closer look is rewarded with some serious detail. The shorties in here include the Challenger blowing up way back when, Halloween 1985, an overheard conversation about marriage, the Day of the Dead (not the movie) and a completely random fight scene in the end that breaks down in tears. The ending was a bit confusing to me, but everything else, with the exception of the grammatical problems I mentioned in the last issue, held together more than well enough to make up for it.
Cummings, Tyrrell – Webb
Webb
I do love the random mini comics, and this one is from New Mexico. You know, I should probably get one of those big maps of the US ala The Colbert Report to keep track of what parts of the country exactly I’ve covered at least a little bit here. Anyway, this one is about a band on tour, mostly dealing with one stop along the way. At this stop is a woman who was a former girlfriend (?) of Webb, but things ended badly, so he’s more than a little conflicted about seeing her again. The relationship itself is left more of less to our imaginations, other than the fact that at least one of his bandmates thinks she’s a tramp. It’s a slow moody little comic and a damned good first effort (if that’s what it is). A few problems with spelling and “your” instead of “you’re”, things that are all over the place in the comics world but still bug me every time, but very minor things. Worth a look overall, nothing to necessarily set the world on fire but it shows a lot of promise for future work. $2
