With still no sight of issue two (a bit annoying but what can you do?) I was surprised that I did manage to get the third installment of Street Angel) — the octopus chess issue. Not quite as good as the first though, I tnki this is because at first sight iy seems as if the humour is tuned down to make space for a more epic feeling. Even so, I laughed long and hard when it came to the dream sequence with the sharks. Landsharks! Real and proper, just as in the old swedish roleplaying game called Mutant. But the humour isn’t gone, thankfully. It’s a bit darker and more low-key, but that’s fine by me.

Street Angel still proves to be a delight — just as the last time. No more of that decompressed storytelling that Bendis likes so much. (I like Bendis just fine, except that the pace he likes to use is so sloooow.) Things happen here and in the end, it is the end of this storyline. When everyone else is spreading themselves out over several issues just for the setup, it feels good to just sit back and enjoy something without having to catch up on “nothing happened but you need to remember it.”

And to make Street Angel a real human is the best thing: she can drop her shoes in the middle of a fight and she can get hurt really bad. You don’t see that often in comics nowadays.

(Ninjas play banjo? Kick ass.)

(Why almost only positive “reviews”? Well, I can’t afford to buy crap.)

Comments

1. You can afford to buy crap. You’re just too positive for your own good. Too positive, too naive and too damn sensitive. Don’t wanna hurt any feelings. You sissypants you.
   — Boo    (@ 14. September 2004, 22:34)
2. No, until the 24th I cna’t afford to buy good stuff either. But I can live with that, because I have real Internet access.
   
   Too sensitive? Freak-Boo, those screws have really gotten to you, haven’t they?
   — Nicklas    (@ 14. September 2004, 22:47)
3. Don’t blame the screws, man. It’s nothing wrong with the srews, man. Just because you have become to sensitive towards human beings, doesn’t mean you ahve to take it out on the wonderful, beutiful, friendly little beings we all refer to as “screws”. Don’t be rude, man; respect the screws.
   — Boo    (@ 14. September 2004, 23:13)
4. Nerds!
   — Tommy    (@ 15. September 2004, 08:30)
5. Hey Dude,
   
   Email me your address and I’ll send you a copy of issue 2.
   
   Thanks for the kind review.
   
   Brian
   — Brian Maruca    (@ 15. September 2004, 14:36)
6. Nicklas, did you just get a comment from one of the creators? You fat bastard! That’s too cool, damn it.
   
   And a mention at the website. Does this mean we have to play it nice around here from now on?
   
   Tommy: Eh! Lighten up, get a butt-plug!
   — Boo    (@ 15. September 2004, 22:55)
7. Boo: to get a comment/email from one who has written/drawn books/comics isn’t cool in itself. That’s plain normal. Well, not really normal, but it does happens sometimes. That they offer to send thing on the other hand, that is cool.
   
   You know me, we don’t play nice.
   — Nicklas    (@ 16. September 2004, 00:01)
8. Boo: Play it nice? How long have you known us? Does we ever play nice? What the hell is wrong with you?
   
   Nicklas: Bring Street Angel with you when going to the woods. I want to have a look. Plee—a—s?
   — Tommy    (@ 16. September 2004, 08:30)
9. Nicklas: Yeah, I meant the getting sent stuff-part too. But I never get comments from people like that. Could be that’s because I almost never blog about comics. Or that I do it in swedish. Or that I don’t do it at all these days. But hey, still…
   
   Tommy: It was kind of silly of me. Call it temporary insanity or not enough coffee in the system. Won’t happen again. Promise. Hey, how’s that butt-plug coming along, by the way?
   — Boo    (@ 16. September 2004, 10:20)
10. Tommy, Ola says to tell you that the Friends of the D-Cup have to put on a coal now. If Tom Waits get his new album out before you, it is driven. So now you know.
    — Boo    (@ 16. September 2004, 20:26)
11. Yayyy, down with obligatory purchasing of crap! Up with purchasing stuff you like and then discussing it! HOORAY!
    — Kitty    (@ 16. September 2004, 20:49)
12. Kitty: And how well do you think the crap-industry would do if everybody shared that mentality? There would be loads of unemployed people laying around in the streets, and we all now how annoying it is to trip over bums. More crap to the people!
    — Boo    (@ 16. September 2004, 21:32)
13. Boo: you just say that because you can’t afford to buy anything, be it good or crap.
    — Nicklas    (@ 16. September 2004, 22:58)
14. Boo: So THAT’S why you keep buying Gyllene Tider album? Now I see.
    — Tommy    (@ 17. September 2004, 16:27)
15. Tommy: Actually, I didn’t buy it, I downloaded it from the internet, so hah in your face, buddy-boy!
    — Boo    (@ 17. September 2004, 23:45)
16. I’ll be putting issue 2 in the mail today (and SLG’s free comic book day free comic – to be referred to as FCBDFC. we have a 4 page story in it…looking at the rest of the stuff though, we’re not anything at all like the rest of SLG’s titles). But I have to admit to having ulterior motives. I’m not sure if the U.S. has pissed off Sweden, yet, and considering that Bush is likely to win again in November, it’s only a matter of time. Jim and I are just trying to preemptively better relations – one person at a time.
    — Brian Maruca    (@ 18. September 2004, 16:20)
17. Brian: the U.S. pisses off Sweden on a regular basis, and I don’t think that will change. Hell, Sweden pisses off Sweden quite a lot too.
    
    However, most people here are aware that the government does not equal the country.
    
    Ohhh, neat. Slave Labor doesn't seem to have any clear company profile beside the 40% of the output must be goth-things.
    — Nicklas    (@ 19. September 2004, 20:57)
18. Brian: Beside what Nicklas said, you’re Comic Book People, which makes you okay by default.
    
    (unless you are Comic Book People named John Byrne, of course, but that is common knowledge and should go without saying)
    — Boo    (@ 20. September 2004, 01:25)
19. Tommy: Per Gessle is married to a skånska, for fuck´s sake. I wouldn´t argue with him.
    — Ola    (@ 20. September 2004, 17:53)
20. what have Per Gessle,s wife to do with Comic Books ?
    
    Tommy; you don’t have the money to argue with Per Gessle or his wife
    — Lind    (@ 24. September 2004, 21:14)
21. Lind: She is really a comic book superhero called “Dirty Superslut”, but it’s all very secret, so you can’t tell anyone.
    — Boo    (@ 29. September 2004, 11:34)

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