Spotlight on: Tricked
Last week I turned the spotlight on Alex Robinson's BOX OFFICE POISON which has quickly worked it's way into one of my favorite graphic novels of all time. As of last night, I just finished his latest graphic novel, TRICKED, and I think I like it even more.
Chris Ryall, editor of Movie Poop Shoot as well as IDW Comics, wrote a great review of it on the MPS site. As I read that review, I was in the midst of finishing BOP, so I was looking forward to picking up TRICKED when it was released.
Not only was I not disappointed, I was blown away.
Ryall called it "the best graphic novel" of the year and I would be hard pressed to argue. The story focuses on six unrelated characters (a faded rock star, a young girl, a High Fidelity-style obsessive, a counterfeiter, a waitress and a personal assistant) who are all on separate paths until one cataclysmic moment brings them all together. Like his other work, TRICKED is filled with rich, complex characters and seamlessly woven storyline threads. As I started it, I would read 30 pages a night, savoring the story...as it came to it's conclusion, I couldn't put it down and finished it off right there. Early wakeup time be damned!
There are a lot of gems on the independent comic scene that you don't even have to be a fan of comics to enjoy. Robinson's works stand chief among them. I can't recommend TRICKED or BOX OFFICE POISON enough, so if you are jonesin' for something different, engrossing and just plain GOOD, to read...pick up one of these books and support independent comic book publishing.
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