Krill #1 by Aaron Mew

This is a mini that I picked up in San Diego. I just saw it a few minutes ago and realized I hadn't yet read it, so I read it and made this post. I feel like a real blogger - real-time comic reviews.

This isn't much of a comic. It's numbered with a "1" and it certainly reads like the first short chapter of a longer story. It also reads like it was created stream-of-conciousness. Well, at least as stream-of-conciousness that a comic book can be. I find it hard to believe that any regular writer (comics or not) could truly create an original work using s-o-c as a style. It would mean that you were able to forget the basics of telling a story and letting your brain flow onto the paper. Writing prose it would be difficult to keep up with the flow of thought, and if you had to draw panels to tell the story it would be impossible. How many thoughts would pass you by as you committed the first to paper. Unfortunately, in this case it just means that the story passes you by.

There's not much to work with. The illustrations are attractive enough, but the story lacks an element of truth-telling that I look for in art. I want to know that the storyteller is sharing a piece of the world's truth with me. In this case, the characters need to represent the truth of the world they inhabit. Maybe the truth is there, and maybe I just need another chapter to find it.

I have no idea how much I paid for this comic, but the artist provides this and other stories for free on his website. Enjoy.