![]() Flashback Friday: OutKast Edition Volume 6: Speake."Crash Site," is An Intriguingly Weird Graphic Nov.It Continues to Annoy Me You Can't Stream Discover.Mini-Run Review: "Rorschach," is the Strangest Ma. ![]() I Like the Mash-Up Songs William Singe Creates.I Offer My Support to Al Ewing Who Has Come Out as.I quite enjoyed reading, "Crash Site," even with its flaws, and would wholeheartedly recommend it. "Crash Site," flirts with being spectacular, but lets its hesitance to be truly earnest or totally nasty leave it in suck in a middle-ground of looking amazing but not having much to say. Even when the comic isn't quite comfortable in deciding on a tone, the art always has a lovely assured vibe. Whether regular humans or strange hybrid-looking creatures, the characters are well fleshed out in their appearance even if the written characterization is at times lacking. Whether Cowdry is drawing a quiet and sweet moment or something more raunchy like Denton voyeuristically peering over the rocks at a woman peeing by the beach, everything is gorgeous. Cowdry's choice for the font in the comic is a bit odd, with the stark design of the text sometimes making it a little hard to read for no apparent reason other than Cowdry wanted a unique font. Tonal qualms aside, "Crash Site," is a gorgeous book. ![]() Does, "Crash Site," want to tell a dramatic-and-surrealist story about drug smuggling, plane crashes, and a dangerous rainforest? Does it want to focus on jokes about jizz, public urination, and flashing strangers at the beach? It kind of wants to do both, and that makes it a struggle for it to really succeed at either as the tone of the comic just lurches all over the place. It is intriguingly weird at times but struggles to get out of its own way. The few times the comic flirts with being heartfelt-such as when Denton is truly worried if Rosie is okay after the plane crash as she falls ill from a mysterious tropical illness-it immediately follows up those moments with gross-out jokes or brutal bloody violence. Is, "Crash Site," making fun of people offended by Apu? Is it just having a laugh at the character's expense and actually pro-PC? One really can't tell as Cowdry seems more interested in, "Going there," than making an actual statement sometimes. "Crash Site," is loaded with sex jokes too, usually with a harsh and nihilistic tone as it either seems to be mocking, "Wokeness," or is simply poking fun at PC culture a little bit-such as in a scene where Denton excitedly reads a magazine dedicated to a woman brutally harming the Simpson's Apu in a comedic manner. The plot sounds a bit straightforward and it is except for a bunch of random flashbacks and dream sequences that give everything even more of an air of unreality.
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