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ABSTRACT FANTASY: SINNERS
($3.00 from Nate Pollard / 20 Coginchaug Court / Guilford, CT / 06437 USA.
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This issue of the
Abstract Fantasy series focuses on the Seven Deadly Sins. Each Sin gets its own strip(s) featuring a bizarre cast of characters including a couple of humans, a hot-dog kind of creature and two or three others that fall under the category of who-the-hell-knows. I'm not even sure whether they're all "real" or just figments of the main character's imagination (he's been under a lot of stress, you see). I don't know that all of the strips necessarily illustrate the Sin they're attached to but it probably won't matter much to fans of this sort of thing – that "sort of thing" being humor (newspaper-comicky in some ways, psychotic in others) that revolves around deranged characters, reckless abandon and much violence. Really, it's something like a certain type of popular goth comics but without the superficial gothic elements. Judging from the author's introduction, this is all backlash from having been brought up in a religious household, so maybe you can see where he's coming from (I can). Nate also sent along the first issue (
Abstract Fantasy: Mania, $4.00), which is even thicker and contains lots of twisted comix featuring the same cast.
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