
As with the first installment of this story, that red stuff is depicted in black and white, but honestly — Keck’s solid, thick-lined, “crunchy” art is best experienced with the full impact of his rich detail unobstructed by color. This is visceral work, to be sure, but cartoonishly so, which is to say that it hits home precisely due to the force of its aesthetic outlandishness. I could spend all day looking at this art if I didn’t have a clock to punch, but who are we kidding? I’m not above goldbricking on the job and reading comics when I’m supposed to be working. The fact that this particular comic (presented once again in a magazine-sized format with awesomely striking covers screen-printed by master of the medium Chris Cajero Cilla at Sardine Can Press) hasn’t made it out of my desk drawer goes to show that I’m paying a lot of attention to it on the city’s dime — and, for the sake of my continued employment, I’d probably do well to drop that subject now.

So yeah, things move at a brisk clip here and come to a conclusion best described as “logically and emotionally satisfying, with a hint of ambiguity to spice things up,” but it’s the journey that matters here even more than the destination, and I’m not entirely sure I was ready for that journey to end, even though I knew it would be going in. Fortunately, there’s some very cool pin-up art by Josh Simmons, Daria Tessler, Kara Daving, Will Iversen, and Mr. Stemrich himself to ease us out the door, but surely I can’t be the only one wishing that this might have gone on for one more issue — can I?


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Crusher Loves Bleeder Bleeder Loves Crusher #2 is available for $10.00 from Patrick Keck’s Storenvy site at https://patrickkeck.storenvy.com/products/32339560-crusher-loves-bleeder-bleeder-loves-crusher-no-2
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