After the break, check out the latest episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell!
That's right--the boys all got their hands on the most recent issue of Sammy Harkham's Crickets. (That would be the fourth issue, friend.) They were pretty into it, and maybe this little episode will give you a sense as to why!
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Posted by: Joe McCulloch | 2015.05.26 at 15:02
You can order the comic online here:
http://whatthingsdo.com/store/
Posted by: Joe McCulloch | 2015.05.26 at 15:02
done and done....issue 3, with the first part of the story continued in #4 is also available...
Posted by: matthew | 2015.05.27 at 07:14
I found you guys via your Sculptor episode and have since listened to nearly all the other ones. It's hard to say if I would have found you otherwise. It doesn't hurt to play the game every once in a while. Even if you just asked people to review you on iTunes, you could probably increase awareness of this wonderful podcast.
Posted by: Tyler | 2015.05.30 at 14:11
Finally got my copy and relistened to y'alls discussion after reading it. A couple of other observations that struck me:
-Vietnam and Iraq creeping around the edges of the main story; Vietnam as symbol of the early 1970s but also as symbol of nihilism, nothing matters in the face of Vietnam. Iraq is where Seymour and Sammy Harkham's grandfather comes from.
-Los Angeles and Palm Springs; grounding the story in very specific places, very beautiful/poetic drawings of Los Angeles driving on empty highways that end the story
-the 'coloring'-- I assume that Kevin H.'s art assistance is coming in the form of the way the grey tone is used to produce lighting effects, as it looks very reminiscent of his work on Ganges and distinct enough from Crickets #3. Its very recognizable.
- Very loose, cartoony, almost Joan Sfar-level drawings of the characters on top of such rock-solid background; every room in Seymour's apartment is cleanly delineated in that sequence with his wife and baby, every room of Val's mansion when Seymour is leaving is decorated with period-appropriate furniture
- Cooking according to a recipe, wasn't until I reread Crickets #3 that I remembered that it also comes up there, in a reversed role
- Seymour comes off as way less of an asshole in Pt. 2
Posted by: Ethan Heitner | 2015.06.10 at 08:18