And the truth will set you flee...One of my favorite Dark Horse titles in 2009 was the Hernandez brother's, Citizen Rex. It was a black and white title that took me back to the days of my youth where most of my favorite characters were of the underground variety: Captain Pissgums, Wonder Wart Hog, Fritz the Cat and Cheech Wizard. Man, you sure don't find many comics like those in the mainstream market today...
Or so I thought until I sat down to read Scott Allie's, Exurbia. Set in a world whose inhabitants are more likely closer to their television sets than the people around them, writer Scott Allie weaves a complex tale of one man's wounded spirit and his eventual redemption with the help of a rodent messiah.
Disillusioned and disenfranchised slacker Gage Wallace finds himself thrown into the crucible of self analysis and change when his world is turned upside down and he suddenly finds himself a hunted criminal on the lam accused of crimes he did not commit. During his flight across the mean streets of Exurbia Gage relives an incident from his past that scarred his conscious leading him to give up the good fight and surrender to the apathy so prevalent in the city around him. Dealing with his past issues allows him to grow beyond them and in the end return to the one thing that brings to his life a true sense of meaning and purpose.
Sporting a cast of characters including Brenda, the girlfriend, Nor and Zero, the dynamic duo of boredom and self absorption and a rat who may or may not be a messiah, Exurbia presents a madcap and sometimes scathing examination of the culture of culture and the electronic medium upon which it plays out in our daily lives. It is a satisfying and entertaining read and the Rat's final "answer" left me chuckling for hours.
Or so I thought until I sat down to read Scott Allie's, Exurbia. Set in a world whose inhabitants are more likely closer to their television sets than the people around them, writer Scott Allie weaves a complex tale of one man's wounded spirit and his eventual redemption with the help of a rodent messiah.
Disillusioned and disenfranchised slacker Gage Wallace finds himself thrown into the crucible of self analysis and change when his world is turned upside down and he suddenly finds himself a hunted criminal on the lam accused of crimes he did not commit. During his flight across the mean streets of Exurbia Gage relives an incident from his past that scarred his conscious leading him to give up the good fight and surrender to the apathy so prevalent in the city around him. Dealing with his past issues allows him to grow beyond them and in the end return to the one thing that brings to his life a true sense of meaning and purpose.
Sporting a cast of characters including Brenda, the girlfriend, Nor and Zero, the dynamic duo of boredom and self absorption and a rat who may or may not be a messiah, Exurbia presents a madcap and sometimes scathing examination of the culture of culture and the electronic medium upon which it plays out in our daily lives. It is a satisfying and entertaining read and the Rat's final "answer" left me chuckling for hours.
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