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PLASTIC FARM #1
"Prologue" by Rafer Roberts with a backup feature, "The Hope," written by Sean C. Duffy, drawn by Jake Warrenfeltz
(
www.plasticfarm.com)
Review by Carol Pond
Rafer Roberts restarts
Plastic Farm as a full-size, professionally printed comic book. "Prologue" introduces a couple of guys, one who's had a bad blackout and can't remember much of anything, but seems to think he's been possessed by a fictional character known as the Kamikaze Kid. The story segues into a story about the Kamikaze Kid before shifting back to the other two guys. It all seems to revolve around a woman named Sean. The art in the main story is rough and scribbly, while the Kamikaze Kid story is a bit smoother with more of a grey wash feel to it. The very first page of the comic is a rather poetic dream sequence: "i go to the marshmallow car" is my favorite line from the whole book. "The Hope" is a science fiction story with clean artwork mostly contrasting light and dark. Some astronauts discover the inhabitants on a planet that is inhospitable to humans. It promises to continue in future issues.
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SATAN'S PANTIES #6
($2.00 + 2 stamps from Alli / PO Box 761 / Mountain View, CA / 94042 USA. Web:
http://www.shadowside.com/panties.html)
Review by Matt Holdaway
I really, really love Alli's style. Her zine is one of the most honest and soul-baring works I have seen. It reads like a letter to a long lost best friend and you leave with a feeling of understanding not common with most writing. It makes me feel sad for Alli for the hardships that she has to face, but her courage and fire can not be extinguished. Her layout is a bit rough, and she uses so many different fonts, which can be slightly distracting, but only to the highly anal, like myself. It really doesn't take away from the heart and grit that is presented and I believe that the fonts are not chosen at random, but more selected to compliment the feel of the works. For sure, send 2 bucks and 2 stamps to Alli. To get a feel for what to expect, go check out
www.shadowside.com for her distro which also has a number of her writings on it.
[ Matt Holdaway writes for
A Multitude of Voices and his writings have appeared in a number of other publications. You can read more of his work at
www.altgeek.net. ]
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