Surely you can put the genie back in the bottle by just asking politely

ideally the grim reaper

FUTURE UNFOLDING Ding Pao-Yen For fans of Pao-Yen’s first book NOT READY FOR REAL LIFE, we’re thrilled to share a new collection of short stories: ghostly phantoms, ancient cities, mannequin vampires, soul-capturing cameras, and a mysterious creature who studies the dreams of humanity…

Oh good another round of Comics vs. Roy Lichtenstein

If it makes you feel better it felt just as bad to type it out.

not really into this whole “for they shall inherit the Earth” thing. I’m meek for the love of the game

OCCULT DETECTIVE CLUB by Hideshi Hino This book will start printing shortly. Preorders go live through Kickstarter next week. Visions of discarded dolls plague Chika's nights after a foreboding encounter among a collection of occult curiosities...

it does not escape me that this looks basically identical to the last Brian Wilson tour

really truly grim

It’s really just wretched stuff. The songs at least have the “oh, I guess this is a competent musical basis? I guess?” element but with that stripped away it’s all just dreadful non-observations delivered by one of the least charming “performers” I’ve ever encountered

The songs are bad, but somehow the non-music stuff is even worse

Music or “skits”?

It’s throughout publishing, not just in comics. Reduced budgets make it so proofreaders are among the first to go, and the results are accordingly.

Deeply unserious operation, on the whole

This all is from BLOODHARLEY’S COACH by Samura Hiroaki. Not a very good comic… feels bad to say, given the truly gruesome subject matter, but the way it cops out of its own premise in the final chapter (“But then the Evil Plan was revealed by the press and overturned!”) seems kind of… cowardly?

It’s from Hollow Press, so “actual publisher” depends on how you feel on a given day

A tale as old as time itself: “the translator and the proofreader were the same person”

proofreader… hire… me…