The 40 Years of Comics Project - Day 1702 - 1707: Catching Up

One of the things I've been talking with my therapist about with regard to my ADHD is, of course, tools to help one muddle through with this kind of mind. One thing that works for me, though I rail against it, is a schedule. I once joked to my wife that I had driven myself crazy by loving chaos but actually requiring structure.

This blog was one such, and I think it's important for me to make it so again. So, a catch-up, and then I'll start blogging again.

This week's theme was "Brown." I typed it into my database, and these were some of the comics that it suggested.

The 40 Years of Comics Project - Day 1690 - 1696: Catching Up

I think for the foreseeable future, I'll be updating when I update.

*sigh*

Being 45 and basically unemployed is probably the most depressing thing that's ever happened to me.

But here are the comics I've read in the last little while.

The 40 Years of Comics Project - Day 1375: BoooOOOoooM! Box Halloween Haunt 2016

One of my local comic shops was selling packs of 25 mini comics like this one to hand out at Halloween this year. I kept one of each variety for myself, of course.

The 40 Years of Comics Project - The Bi-Weekly Graphic Novel Number 64 - Lumberjanes v.1: Beware the Kitten Holy, 2015

I've probably gone on about one of my favourite cartoons, Gravity Falls. And if I haven't, I will this Summer when the new graphic novel comes out.

Lumberjanes draws on a similar aesthetic, or perhaps genre, young people exploring enchanted woods, as Gravity Falls, and really of so many of the fairy tales we're told as kids. The difference between these five ladies (hardcore ladies, that is) and lots of those fairy tale kids is that these guys take no crap. They're open to weird and strange possibilities, but they never let those possibilities push them around. They're pretty badass.

I came across this trade by accident in a thrift shop and I'd heard so much good about it that I thought it worth the investment. It is that and more. A lovely, dynamic art style - the amount of information the ladies convey in facial expression is wonderful. Not every comics artist can do a wide range of expressions, but Ms. Allen manages to say so much with just a few extra lines. And the stories are right out of an adventure novel, Indiana Jones-esque, and, occasionally, a bit of Stephen King novel thrown in. There's definitely some darkness in this series, but I think it's really only there to contrast to the light that the five main characters radiate. They're flawed. They're young. And they're having a very weird Summer.

I will be having at look at the next volume, at the very least. I'm curious to see if the series develops a larger story, which will necessitate the passage of time, and thus of camp coming to an end, or will it remain an eternal Summer of investigation of the hardcore ladies of Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqui Thistle Crumpet's camp.

To be continued...