Just read it an hor ago, had to brave snow to get to the store but it was worth it.
This is the issue I've been waiting for since I read the preview for it months back, the issue that shed some light on the secrets of the comic, etc. Well, it does shed some light though of course I'm still not quite sure I get the whole thing, maybe future issues will clarify. We shall see.
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I was shocked by the opening pages where we find out that Tony died. I was expecting GM to actually show it happen. There is great humor in these pages, like the vet who says "Without that medicine a pair of golden hmasters might not last the night". Only in a GM comic I guess, same for the Tarantula doing Winston Churchill impersonations. The sight of Ned crying in the back of the car was heartbreaking. Same for Ned's line about wanting to be there for the cat when he died but I wasn't". This line moved me more then anything I've read so far in this title. It reminded me of last summer when I was on vacation in Montreal and we got a call from the woman (a vet) who was house-sitting our cat while we were away. The first night at the hotel she called us and said that she had discovered our cat (Rusty) having breathing trouble so she took him to the vets, where they found out his lungs were filling up with fluid. The doctors had to shave large patches of fur off to help drain him out, and they had to keep him there overnight. We decided to cut our vacation short and get back to Rhode Island to be with him. That night at the hotel I was a mess, thinking about my poor cat locked in a cage in some strange place, sick, shaved, separated from his loved ones and how scared he must be, plus years ago I had made a promise to him that I would be by his side when he died. The idea of him dying in a strange place alone without his loved ones made me feel sick and I said a prayer to Bast, asking her to keep Rusty alive until we got back. Well, he did make it in time and we put him on pills and he seemed fine for a few weeks, but then he got sick again and we had to put him down in September, exactly a week after I read Filth #3, which of course ends with Ned burying a cat while it’s raining out (it was raining when we buried Rusty in the backyard too). At least I was with him when he died though. The moment of his death I said a prayer to Bast to get him to the afterlife safetly. Maybe that’s why this issue moved me so much.
Back to the comic… The Man Green/Man Yellow scene was quite odd, very surreal, and I’m not sure I got it. Same for the NixonNoxin stuff. Ah well. That view of the Hand was quite cool-looking, though I wonder about all that talk about ink. I’m guessing this means that the hand is responsible for creating life? And I wonder why it started in the year 1952? Or why time goes faster there?
The last scene was quite odd (I found the panels where one of the kids throwing a piece of shit at Ned to be a little silly) with Sharon Jones back in the story as a major player it seems. What is with all that “You-am” stuff, and I wonder what the I-Life is doing on Tony? And is that a Bast statue?
Contrary to what GM said I didn’t find the accent stuff that tough to figure out, maybe I’m just used to Cameron’s style of speech by now… |
