Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Secret Origin
These humble recommendations adorned the shelves of embattled Bay Area comics institution Comic Relief, which acted as home, education, and employment to me for nearly half a decade. As a sixteen year old's first foray into comics criticism they're hardly auspicious, but at least I was getting a little better by the end there. From such small seeds did the still-pretty-small flower that is this website blossom...
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those are great! did you cherry pick?
The trick to enjoying ASB&R is to imagine it redrawn in the style of DKSA, I think. Then it all makes much more sense. Plus it's a fun exercise.
It's funny, I've been reading this blog for a few months, and I saw in your Tom Spurgeon interview that you worked at Comic Relief, but it only just dawned on me that I sort of know you from there! There's no way you would remember me, but I bought a copy of David Boring from you three years ago. Incidentally, that place has gotten depressing.
ODE TO KIRIHITO!
Now there's a mighty brick of thrillpower - 800 pages and nary a lag, with every ten pages a new nail-biting cliffhanger. And those splashes intent upon bending the mind of the hapless reader - "whoa, comics!"
I just want to say... its cool that Richard Sala drew the art for those recommendation cards...
@Matt S, yeah I remember you dude! How often can you push David Boring on somebody in a lifetime? For me, not very. Thanks for commenting!
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