6/29/2023 0 Comments King city by brandon grahamYet, people here still greedily hunt for connections of some sort or another. Through their misadventures, you see that King City happens in a world that’s never getting fixed because it’s so way past broken. King City‘s about Joe, a guy who’s returned to the titular cyberfunk metropolis after spending years away at a farm where he learned how to turn a hyper-intelligent cat into a shape-shifting, do-anything tool of espionage and combat.īoth Joe and his underground engineer friend Pete Taifighter get by by doing shady jobs for shadier people. (Hat tip to David Brothers, who I think was the first person to convince me to read King City.) The long-running series debuted from Tokyopop and wrapped up with the Image Comics banner after its first publisher went under. The cat in question-a pointy-eared fella named Earthling-appears in King City, Graham’s most stunning, freewheeling work so far. Put it this way: he’s made comics with a cat that vomits up keys, turns into periscope and gets ridden like a hoverboard. But, right now, the creator that manages to take me to the most weirdly seductive places and shows me the most oddly compelling things is Brandon Graham. Along with those two, lots of top-flight idea generators exist in the comics landscape of 2012. And I swoon every time a comic with Jonathan Hickman’s name on it comes out.
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