![]() ![]() The last panel of the little boy sitting on the ledge though was memorably creepy. It’s all ordinary stuff - normal people, small town nothing eye-catching. ![]() I usually love Ramon K Perez’s art (Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand is terrific, if you’ve not read it and want to “read” a brilliant silent comic), and it’s fine here, but he’s not given anything terribly interesting to draw. So he’s overly aggressive, stupid and, given how crap a fighter he is, a glutton for punishment - not loving the guy! Doesn’t help that he talks in that douchey-chatty way that too many Zdarsky characters do. ![]() Stillwater #1 was the first Chip Zdarsky-scripted comic I didn’t totally hate! It’s tough to get into at first because Dan is such a shitbag of a main character: he’s fired for hitting a colleague, he fights (and loses) to a club bouncer, he fights (and loses) to a cop. Having recently been fired with nothing but time on his hands and a need for cash, it’s the perfect time for a road trip! But what is Stillwater - and why has no-one heard of it…? Dan West receives a hand-delivered letter from a little old man in a bowler hat summoning him to the town of Stillwater to receive an undisclosed sum from his great-grand-aunt’s estate. ![]()
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