Comics Daze

The weather’s turned cold and stuff, so I think it’s time to spend a day reading comics. And accompanied by music from 1982 only. Kate Bush: The Dreaming 12:03: Betas by Nick Maandag (Drawn & Quarterly) This book feels kinda displaced in time — it’s about PC Madness Gone Wrong etc, and is probably meant to be read as a parody of right-wing fears of sorts? And there are some funny bits in here. But reading this is just page after page of these conversations that aren’t very entertaining, so the book becomes a joyless slog for the most part. I’m wondering what the reactions to this book are (if any), because you could also easily read it as an earnest alt right depiction of How Things Are These Days. I can find virtually no reviews of this book, which is very strange for a book from Drawn & Quarterly. Those people are usually really good at getting their books in front of reviewers. Here’s somebody who totally interpreted it “the other way”: You get the point pretty early on – it’s…