May 31, 2004

{ Dang! }

Dang! brand comics and stories is a funny little funny book drawn by Mr. Martin Cendreda starring Herbert Hound, Li'l Orphans, Obnoxious Teen, Fashionistas, and Mullet. Previously self-published (I assume, based on "Mr. Cendreda's website":http://www.zurikrobot.com/) Dang! is now published by Top Shelf Productions, Inc. and available in finer dens of geekdom everywhere. Owning your own copy will cost you three dollars and fifty cents plus applicable sales tax or shipping. This issue of Dang! (number one?) deals with the vagaries of fashion in today's highly impressionable and media-centered lifestyle. A minute number of �ber-hip fashion gurus can make the silliest of clothing a must-have. In simpler, more direct language, Dang! is about a pair of pants. You'll also get three much shorter stories, mostly about very irritable and irritating people Martin Cendreda's characters are squinting, hypercephalic caricatures. Backgrounds are minimal and largely filthy. I had toyed with the idea of writing a rambling, largely nonsensical rant about his use of public spaces and community etiquette as a humor device, but I'll shelve that one in the interest of public decency. Geek alert: See if you can spot heroic Autobot commander Optimus Prime in this issue!

» Martin Cendreda
» Top Shelf Productions, Inc.

By Benjamin in Reading