Review code format (ranked 1-5, blah to faboo): [writing / art / new reader? / non-comics reader?]

Daisy Kutter: The Last Train (Viper) [4/4/4/4]
w/a. Kazu Kibuishi

It’s a Western.  No, it’s SF.   No, it’s both.  Firefly fans would enjoy this; the background of the world is never really explained, but we have six-shooters and robots and a female protagonist and trains, and a basically story that could be recast as a classic cowboy tale, if you were willing to settle for that.

Daisy’s a retired bandit, and a bit bored, when she gets hired to protect a train and its cargo headed toward a destination.  Of course she takes the job, and of course it turns out to be a lot more complicated than that.  The art is simple but deceiving in that simplicity, as it tells the story perfectly and with sophistication.  The writing is simple, but in the same way.

This is, as far as I can tell, the extent of the Daisy Kutter canon, which is a shame, because I’d buy more.  Fun, amusing, exciting, spiffy.

Dork Tower: The Dork Side of the Goon (Vol. VII) (Dorkstorm) [4/3/3/4] (collects #25-29)
w/a. John Kovalic

Dork Tower tends to veer between one-off gaming/genre/geeky jokes and amusing soap opera about the people (and their muskrats) who love them.  This volume, in addition to the regular hilarity, includes a tribute to Charles Schulz,  as well as the continuing unrequited love between Matt and Gilly — which, itself, ends on quite the cliffhanger.

Dork Tower is available as a webcomic, though the print comic only includes some of that content.  It’s worth checking out.

Not quite sure why this is taking me so long to go through, in comparison to, say, this blitz of six reviews from the end of last year’s Blogathon.  I seem to be being more verbose.  Is that a good thing?  Time will tell.

(listening to: Symphonic Cast, “Fantine’s Death” from Les Misérables (Symphonic))
(listening to: Nylons, “Ai no corrida” from Fabric of Life)

(listening to: Sinatra, Frank, “If I Go Away” from Fly Me to the Moon)

(listening to: Webber, Andrew Lloyd & Tim Rice, “John Nineteen – Forty-One” from Jesus Christ Superstar)
(listening to: Fitzpatrick, James & Prague Philharmonic, “Airforce One – Main Title” from Jerry Goldsmith – 40 Years of Film Music)
(listening to: Shaiman, Marc, ”Thing Gets Work” from Addams Family)
(listening to: Clannad, “Bruach na Carriage Báine” from Fuaim)