al columbia's "biologic show" nos 0 + 1

and pretty much everything else he's ever done. Pogostick is a bit frustrating at this stage (and possibly for ever more), don't start there. And actually if you find Doghead, send it to me, I lent mine and never got it back.

I flipped through the new Pim And Francie book in the shop today, and it looked amazing. A couple hundred pages of Columbia unleashed.

Did the same about a week ago. Thought it looked amazing, but also frustrating. So many disconnected fragments, so little finished work. Like the guy's just fucking haemorrhaging genius, but in this splattery, self-negating way that impedes full delivery. (That's the impression it gives off, anyway -- not saying that's actually the case.) I mean, I dunno, maybe all the scraps are secondary material related to a magum opus that's progressing apace...

Anyway, fuck yeah, the first couple issues of Biologic Show are staggering! Some of my favorite comix of their era. Almost too relentlessly grim and abusive for my present, "mature", sensibilities, but he could/can draw like nobody's fucking business. Love the little illustrated songlets, too. Always wanted to make up music to go along with the lyrics ("spins rotting in florescent waves..."). Seems kinda unfair to compare the Biologic Show to something like I Was Killing When Killing Wasn't Cool, though. It was a varied collection of bits, where IWKWKWC is just a few insanely dense pages of an incomplete story. A MAGNIFICENT incomplete story, maybe my single favorite AC piece, but still... Peloria's just as good, if not quite as technically advanced.