![]() It’s an interesting philosophical “progression,”(if that’s the word we want to use), and while it gets to be a bit of a polemic, Brown never seems overly preachy simply because he’s always so calmly matter-of-fact about everything. So if we had to choose two words to describe this book’s overall aesthetic, they would be frank and? direct.Īs you’ve probably managed to figure out by now, this book, Brown’s first-ever work not to be serialized in an ongoing standard-comics format, is an autobiographical account of his, shall we say, “journey” from guy in a relationship to guy who pays for sex to, finally, guy who still pays for sex and has come to view romantic love as not only unattainable, but flat-out? undesirable, as well. His attention to detail is getting more and more meticulous yet he’s doing it with fewer pencil-and brush-strokes than he used to, which is also reflected in his writing, as that’s grown more and more? economic, shall we say, as his career as progressed, as well. But hey, as far as comics/comix go, I did save one of the best of the bunch for “last,” so without any further ado let’s take a look at legendary? Yummy Fur and? Louis Riel writer/artist Chester Brown’s latest hardcover opus, his flat-out? disarmingly matter-of-fact accounting of his time as a patron of the world’s oldest profession,? Paying For It, subtitled, appropriately enough,? A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being A John -įirst off, before we even tackle the subject matter here, let me say this about Brown’s ever-evolving art style - if you loved the detailed cross-hatching so prominent in? Louis Riel, a lot of that’s gone here, replaced instead with a really strong use of inky blacks and frankly it fits his theme - Brown seems to have moved on from a world where things are indeed quite shaded to one where things are pretty solid, pretty black-and-white, in his mind. Finally, the DSi will no longer be compatible with Slot-2 games or devices, such as GBA games or Guitar Hero: On Tour.So, yeah, here it is, the end of my “Comix Month” that went on for three - no, make that? four months - and that still actually isn’t really? all that over with since I’ll continue with the Before Watchmen reviews I’ve been doing (in fact, another one of those will be coming up this weekend) as long as I’m still picking those books up, but the fact is we’ll be moving back into film reviews? for the most part starting on Monday. For starters, DSi will have a shorter battery life compared to DS Lite and will sell for a higher price- $179 as opposed to $129. But currently, the new changes aren’t terribly compelling.
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