Chris Bachalo

Reread 8/14. Definitely the ultimate feel-good comic about life and mortality.

The panel about halfway through where Death feels Hazel's baby kick may be one of the most beautiful and understated comic panels of all time.

But for whatever reason, Tori Amos's introduction (written way back in the early nineties) is actually my favorite part of this book. It sums up my life philosophy (or at least the one to which I aspire). You can rel="nofollow" target="_top">read it here.

And yes, I am wearing my ankh today. :)… (altro)

This started out well but really began sputtering out midway through and never found its way back.

The concept is good. The setting is good. A lot of the details are interesting, twists on folklore, children's games, old rhymes, Robert Browning, and the possibly somewhat historic Children's Crusade. On top of that, the two detectives are ghost boys! So it was really hitting all my favorite things, not to mention probable inspiration from J.M. Barrie's Neverland.

After a while, issues stopped connecting well. I had to infer a lot for seemingly no good reason to make an inkling of sense of the plot. Some characters that were made to seem important were just suddenly dropped. You can almost hear the authors scrambling to patch this up.

The saving grace is that the Dead Boy Detectives are consistently amusing.… (altro)