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Jason
FantagraphicsJason is a Norwegian cartoonist who always draws stories about anthropomorphized cat, dog, and bird people.These stories are a little less open-and-shut than Jason usually makes. His comics are always good, but I usually don't think about them too much after reading them. This one's more of a think stimulator than previous books.The first story is called "The Smiling Horse." Two kidnappers are warned by their hostage that the Smiling Horse will get them for their crime. One goes out to run an errand and while he's gone the Smiling Horse comes and kills his partner in crime and frees their victim. Decades later the surviving kidnapper is in his kitchen when a voice we assume is the Smiling Horse tells him that he should have known he would never get away and the kidnapper lets him know he's ready to die. We never see the Smiling Horse. Is he a superhero or a secret agent? Is he an actual smiling horse?? Jason's comics aren't usually this unresolved. I'm glad he's started doing good stuff like that.

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Anders Nilsen
Drawn & QuarterlyI should have reviewed this book before, but I didn't. Here are my thoughts on how it is now, presently.


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