Thursday 31 August 2023

Alrightreads: Comixxxxxxxx

Al Ewing and Simone Di Meo, We Only Find Them When They're Dead, Book One: The Seeker

2021 / Ebook / 112 pages / UK/Italy

***

Intriguing pitch, filled out with characters I didn't care about.


Sam Hamm and Denys Cowan, Batman: Blind Justice

1989 (collected 1992) / Ebook / 160 pages / USA

****

'80s comics are best comics.


Andy Runton, Owly: The Way Home & The Bittersweet Summer

2004 / Ebook / 160 pages / USA

***

Wholesome silent, static cartoon, provide your own saccharine soundtrack.


Steve Purcell, The Collected Sam & Max: Surfin' the Highway

1987-95 (collected 1995) / Ebook / 160 pages / USA

****

Like The Young Ones, if they were vague justice-dispensing animal things. 


Dan Abnett and I. N. J. Culbard, Brink, Book One

2017 / Ebook / 96 pages / UK

***

An intriguing apocalyptic overture, but I'll leave them to their miserable fate.