(Sorry, totally slacking. Here's a fill-in entry. This collection reorganization is taking a lot of my time!)
I feel like just about every time I've reviewed a comic from Blackthorne Publishing here, I've gushed about how good they actually are, despite their humble origins. I'm going to have to stop, and just admit that Blackthorne had a pretty great little stable of titles that are totally worth tracking down.
Their style is somewhere just this side of the underground, a bit more irreverent than the so-called "ground level" comics of the early 80s. There is still something of the comix to them. In today's issue, most especially in the final sequence, a dream that Atomic Man has one night. Is it prophecy, or just some seriously fucked up subconscious shenanigans? Who knows? It was weird and kind of messed up.
I'll be tracking down the other two issues of this series as soon as I can. It's really quite good, and gave me an experience I was not expecting from the cover. I know, I know: books, covers, all that stuff. But that's just how comics tend to work.
To be continued.
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