Hosive

one of the casualties post zoe has been this column on my blog…i haven’t talked about comics in a long, long time. here’s to the new year and a new start…..

in this segment, i’ll detail my amore for the art and medium of comics. the title comes from a comic shop i frequented as a kid and a nod to my boy q and his blog.

my absolute favorite comic(that sounds so junior high)right now is sweet tooth.  it is a post apocalyptic story featuring both innocent, fantastic characters like gus, the deer boy and hardened predators, like the ones trying to capture, kill or dissect gus.

i love that jeff lemire does not explain everything…in fact, so much is a mystery. we do not know the nature of the apocalypse or how gus came to be an amalgam of human and animal…just that they are related.  we do not know the true motivations of all the characters. nothing seems sure or cliche.

the pacing is light, breezy and fearsome all at once. the melding of words and art are a near perfect dance. as good as any comic i’ve ever read.  and the magic happens….i am transported somewhere else with each issue.

my eyes expand when i see it on the rack and i am disappointed when that month’s installment is over. and i have to wait another for the next issue. these are very good signs.

the story has just gotten started with a trade to be released and a new story arc that is only one issue in. there is still time to get in on what will be looked back upon with great fondness. this is why we read comics.