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After showcasing his range with Human Garbage, Josh Hicks is back in the squared circle for Glorious Wrestling Alliance: Grappling Road – and this time his band of weird and wonderful grapplers are hitting the road in a tour bus Almost Famous style! A staple of wrestling biographies it’s a fantastic device for getting the gang out into a new atmosphere as well as a way of heightening the tensions out of the ring. Death Machine is still struggling with his poetry, Gravy Train is struggling to find an identity that isn’t meat sauce based, Great Carp is trying to get time to himself away from his party heavy pals and Miranda Fury is still trying to overcome the patriarchal booking plans of the bosses and subverting it by putting a mask on and appearing as Hyper Mask. This allows for an almost comic strip like story which goes from scene to scene and character to character, but the idea of a tour allows the story to have some sense of an arc albeit it a very loose one. Visually Josh is on top form with his simple line style packed full of character and humour. But it is the little graphical details like the tour bus morale meter or the guide to the layout of the bus which gives the book that extra level of interest and makes it more than just another quirky indie comic. Josh is also joined in this issue by regular convention table mate Ioan Morris who provides a back up story about women wrestlers the Combat Smash Banshees. With a much more formal style it is a fantastic contrast to Josh’s lighter more cartoony style and makes this into a wrestling comic worthy of main event status!
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The debut comic from the Wine and Zine banner (who brought us gender swap zine Swap), Claire Spiller’s Lost Light sees a young awkward girl living alone in the woods, and protecting herself from the dark and scary animals in the woods with light. But when she runs out of fuel for her lanterns she has to venture through the woods and in doing so discovers the animals aren’t as scary as she first thought. Told completely silently with no speech balloons, Spiller’s very animation infused style has to do the heavy lifting of the story telling, and it’s more than up to the job, especially once the young girl ventures into the woods and sees the animals in the non-artificial light. When she sees them in her lantern light they are dark and menacing, but in the woods they are incandescent, rainbow-coloured and patterned with starlight – not at all scary, quite the opposite. It is these scenes in the woods which are the true highlights of the book. Spiller’s artwork is just beautiful here, with the animals feeling like liquid, glowing and completely otherworldly. It makes for a great parable on the dangers of artificial light pollution in the modern world – especially in the latter third when the girl ventures into the town in a new technicolor cloak and is shunned once the lights go on after dark. Although a relatively simple tale, the stunning artwork and subtle nuances reward repeat reading and with the absence of dialogue it makes you study each page to get the most from the story. This ensures Lost Light gets better with every read and sets the bar very high for the rest of the Wine and Zine crew to live up to!
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