SILENCE! #255
September 14th, 2018
IF I COULD MOVE MY HEAD IN TIME WITH A BRIGHTER BEAT
WANTED:
One blurb, fully composed, grammatically perfect.
Essential: Pithy, original tone, mentions of Gary Lactus & The Beast Must Die, SILENCE!, the Reviewniverse, admin and comics.
Desirable: Arch, conceptual structure, subversive punchline, Swiftian satire, gentle ribbing of beloved genre tropes.
(Please include mention of the following in your blurb: Thought Bubble 2018, Silence To Astonish Live, Crowded, Aliens: Labyrinth, West Coast Avengers, Tale of One Bad Rat, Tangent Comics: Tales of the Green Lantern, The New World, The Vigilant.
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This edition of SILENCE! is proudly sponsored by the greatest comics shop on the planet, DAVE’S COMICS of Brighton. It’s also sponsored the greatest comics shop on the planet GOSH! Comics of London.
September 16th, 2018 at 12:41 pm
Picked up Aliens: Labyrinth on Beastie’s reckymend for two bucks on Comixology. Hoooo-leeeee shit. That is some gruesome goodness. I wondered whether the last page might be splash of a xenomorph in Stan Lee shades exclaiming “And that’s why we hadda call this one: The Aristocrats!” But alas, no last page levity to lighten my spirits. Just a black mold of nihilism festering at my soul. LOVED IT.
September 18th, 2018 at 6:00 pm
Beast’s comment of “Walk or Die” and its children in terrible situations reminded me of the brilliant “Drifting Classroom” by Kazuo Umezu; if you haven’t read it, I think you may like it a lot.