Comics Daze

After being in the doldrums for half a year after the Diamond melt-down, comics are flooding the markets again, so I guess I have to read some more comics today. Darn! Tujiko Noriko: PON 11:31: Purr Quarterly #1 But first an oldie. I was scanning Comics International when I saw this article — “a UK Raw?” I know, I know, all headlines that end with a question mark has the answer “no”, but still. Sounds intriguing. So I went on ebay, and now I’ve got a copy, so let’s get reading. So it has all these people, and a mini-comic insert. Inserts are very Raw. But… this is very un-Raw. I mean, I guess you could see this mix of art features, comics and text and go “you know what else is all pretentious and stuff? Raw! It’s just like Raw!” But it isn’t at all. It’s like if you were going “how do I create an anti-Raw?” This is pretty much it. I don’t want to use hate speech here, but it reminds me quite a bit of Juxtapoz. All “psychological” dramas and “shocking” shit. And then, randomly, they…