Title:
SAMURAI SLASHER: LATE FEES
Format:
AMERICAN COMICS FORMAT. COLOUR
Length:
22 STORY PAGES
Price:
£5
Publisher:
MIKE GARLEY
Creators:
WRITTEN BY MIKE GARLEY, ILLUSTRATED BY LUKASZ KOWALCZUK,COLOURS
BY LUKASZ MAZUR
Review:
Not
what I was expecting.
This
comic is a rather touching and thoughtful comic about the
relationship between a boy and his troubled father seen through the
prism of 1980s video rentals. The Samurai Slasher of the title is
merely a fictional 1980s horror movie that provides added colour and
fantasy to what is a bittersweet domestic tale of family troubles and
estrangement.
The
art is vivid, cartoony and modern. The colours are bold and striking.
The setting is familiar to anyone who lived through the 1980s. The
storytelling is very easy on the eye.
It
reads as if this is a personal tale to the writer, but that isn’t
spelt out. Is this an autobiographical story? In the end it doesn’t
matter, because clearly it could be.
Worth
your time to seek out and ponder it’s means for yourself.
John
A. Short
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