Anyone will tell you that my involvement with "Bamn" has singlehandedly renewed my interest in the possibilities of the comic book medium. Particularly, it’s pulled me away from the superhero genre and focused my attention on some of the more off-beat comic books.
I’ve toyed with the idea of trying to aggressively present more titles to our customer-base at Alliance Silver Spring , MD
For the cool kids, graphic novels are comic book compilations that usually contain six or more issues of the same story. Largely self-contained, graphic novels are the easiest way to get the uninitiated into the realm of “funny books.”
Reviewing comics has worked pretty well for the shop in the past. So continuing this seems like a smart decision. If this works out well (meaning, you actually pick up something I suggest and like it) then it’s important for you to leave feedback and let me know, online or in-person, what you think or this whole thing will go down as a failed experiment…
Continuity
Written and Drawn by Jason McNamara and Tony Talbert
$12.95
I’ve always been of the belief that the X-Men books should never be treated as just a Superhero title, that the premise and the eclectic mix of characters within the X-Universe begged for a much more topical comic book…an allegory of our times. Unfortunately, more often than not, the X-Men books lean heavily on its’ superhero trappings. Sure there have been gems here and there (God Loves Man Kills and New X-Men come to mind) but those have been constantly lost within the massive crossovers and needless soap opera subplots.
A concept like Continuity would serve the X-Men line well. It’s a mutant story but it’s not a Marvel book, the main character manifests powers in her teens, but she lives in a world without X-Men. All the metaphors are there, all the angst is there but without the superheroes. I love it for that reason.
Alicia Lock is a teenage girl who has denied herself sleep for the last 9 months. She has come to the realization that her dreams and nightmares have a way of becoming reality. She dreams about murdering classmates and they pop up dead the next morning. She dreams that all the narrow-minded people in her town would disappear and the whole city vanishes...or even worse, she dreams about sleeping with the popular boy in school and becomes pregnant.
That turmoil alone is brilliant: How do you explain to your parents that you got knocked up without having sex? Even worse, how do you explain to the popular boy that he’s the father?
Continuity is a stand alone revenge-fantasy that spirals into dramatic directions that are very intriguing, utilizing its’ main character’s sleep deprived paranoia as a storytelling tool.
Marvel should take note.
CLICKITY-CLICK to read the free download: http://www.ait-planetlar.com/resources/Continuity.pdf
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