My Faith in Frankie
So, here I am again. 9:45 on a Friday and I am sitting at home, waiting for Matt and Frank to finish their respective commitments so we can get together and write. I could be off seeing Team America with Kim and those dudes from The Insanities, but nooooooo. Stupid creative process.
Dear Creative Process,
You suck balls.
Love, Jeff
So let me tell you about the best comic I read this week. It was the collection of the Vertigo miniseries My Faith in Frankie by Mike Carey and Sonny Liew.
The story revolves around seventeen year-old Frankie and her personal god, Jeriven. Jeriven has looked after Frankie all her life, since she's the only mortal who can see him, but now that Frankie's old enough to be dating, Jeriven's "protection" is starting to interfere with her sex life. The story opens with Frankie putting the moves on her latest date, only to be interrupted by a plague of bunnies that Jeriven has sent.
Jeriven figures he can handle any boys Frankie might come across until Dean, a childhood friend of Frankie's, blows back into town, looking mighty good for a guy who died back in grade school.
The book is simply a delight. Carey balances the romance and humor to fine effect, creating a plausible romantic quadrangle (the fourth corner is Frankie's best friend, Kay, whose feelings for Frankie may go deeper than friendship). Carey uses a swell technique of breaking down the story into tiny mini-chapters that alternate from the present to Frankie's grade school days, filling us in on important backstory where appropriate. Liew's art is fantastic. I especially like the adorable cartoony style he adopts for the flashbacks.
The collection has all four issues of the miniseries, and is printed in the manga-size digest format for a mere seven dollars. The main drawback to the book is that the once-color art has been changed to black and white for the collection. Why the hell did they do that? Marvel's Runaways collections are six issues long and in color and only cost eight dollars. DC can't do a damn thing right when it comes to trades.
Anyway, the transition to black and white doesn't hurt the art one bit, and the story is more than worth it for the price. Go buy it. Go! Shoo!
Dear Creative Process,
You suck balls.
Love, Jeff
So let me tell you about the best comic I read this week. It was the collection of the Vertigo miniseries My Faith in Frankie by Mike Carey and Sonny Liew.
The story revolves around seventeen year-old Frankie and her personal god, Jeriven. Jeriven has looked after Frankie all her life, since she's the only mortal who can see him, but now that Frankie's old enough to be dating, Jeriven's "protection" is starting to interfere with her sex life. The story opens with Frankie putting the moves on her latest date, only to be interrupted by a plague of bunnies that Jeriven has sent.
Jeriven figures he can handle any boys Frankie might come across until Dean, a childhood friend of Frankie's, blows back into town, looking mighty good for a guy who died back in grade school.
The book is simply a delight. Carey balances the romance and humor to fine effect, creating a plausible romantic quadrangle (the fourth corner is Frankie's best friend, Kay, whose feelings for Frankie may go deeper than friendship). Carey uses a swell technique of breaking down the story into tiny mini-chapters that alternate from the present to Frankie's grade school days, filling us in on important backstory where appropriate. Liew's art is fantastic. I especially like the adorable cartoony style he adopts for the flashbacks.
The collection has all four issues of the miniseries, and is printed in the manga-size digest format for a mere seven dollars. The main drawback to the book is that the once-color art has been changed to black and white for the collection. Why the hell did they do that? Marvel's Runaways collections are six issues long and in color and only cost eight dollars. DC can't do a damn thing right when it comes to trades.
Anyway, the transition to black and white doesn't hurt the art one bit, and the story is more than worth it for the price. Go buy it. Go! Shoo!
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