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FAVORITE WEBCOMIC OF 2015: DEMON by JASON SHIGA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nI would never have bothered to read Jason Shiga’s books if they hadn’t been recommended to me by Tom Herpich. I don’t think his drawings are very good, or appealing in any way. But Tom kept recommending Fleep to me, so I read it and became a fan. Fleep and Book Hunter are crazy entertaining, funny, and smart as hell, which proves you can have shit drawing skills and still make a comic I’d want to read. Conversely, there are people with amazing drawing chops who can’t write for shit and I will never read their comics. <\/p>\n

I’m about 160 pages into Demon and it’s just as good as his previous work. I CANNOT BELIEVE the pace he’s working at. HE’S DOING A PAGE EVERY DAY. This guy is a maniac. Check it out HERE<\/a>. And support his Patreon if you can! He has a kid to support!
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\nFAVORITE COMIC OF 2015: TERROR ASSAULTER by BENJAMIN MARRA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Of the Marra books that I’ve read, this is his best, and it’s my favorite comic of the year. He sticks to the super redundancy of characters explaining everything they’re doing and absolutely nothing beyond that. “I am kicking you” while kicking someone through the head. The cumulative effect is a feeling of being beaten or punished as you push onward through the relentless violence and redundant dialogue. My body reacts to this punishment by laughing harder and harder as the book goes on.<\/p>\n

I always enjoy Marra’s stiff drawings and sometimes jarring proportions. It give his panels a certain power that I can’t totally explain. And I really dig the “I’ll fuck or kill anything that moves” characterization of the main character. It’s an interesting satire of 80’s action movie masculinity, while still celebrating the thrills we get from following those kinds of opaque, sociopathic characters. <\/p>\n


\nFAVORITE GENRE TV EPISODE OF THE YEAR: DOCTOR WHO – HEAVEN SENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

I pretty much only watch genre television: Sci-fi, super hero shit, Game of Thrones and then I’ll pepper it with comedy stuff while I’m eating dinner. But the only shows I feel passionate about keeping up with are those genre stories. Ok yeah I like Louie too. Is it even a comedy anymore? <\/p>\n

Anyway in a year of pretty good genre TV, the season 9 Doctor Who episode “Heaven Sent” helped me believe in this show again. The whole season was gangbusters (except for that eye booger episode wtf) which I didn’t think was possible after 3 seasons of mostly rubbish, hollow grandstanding. “Heaven Sent” is somewhere in the top 5-ish episodes of the modern series for me. It takes the Doctor to the absolute extreme of problem solving, emotion, and sacrifice. It really is a masterpiece of emotional storytelling. <\/p>\n

FAVORITE NEW MUSIC OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s hard to care about new music when at any given moment you can put on King Crimson’s “Larks’ Tongues in Aspic” and then everything else sounds like shit. But here’s a new jam I enjoyed this year:<\/p>\n