Review: Maid to Skate

There's definitely something to be said for simplicity of concept, just as there's something exciting about an artist following their interests and passions, creating a comic book not necessarily because they have something important to say, but just because they want to draw the things they like.Both seem true of Maid to Skate, a new manga from one-name artist Suzushiro, which Viz Media released in December of last year (although I wasn't made aware of it until Tegan O'Neil covered it for TCJ a few months back). Indeed, the title and the cover tell you all you need to know about the book. It's about skateboarding maids.According to the little author bio at the end, it started as illustrations that went viral on social media, eventually leading to comics, and the simplicity of those comics certainly seems to comport with the straightforward origin of the project. The five chapters in the first volume are short, standalone, quite uncomplicated stories.The book seems set in some…