Lo and behold the biggest grift in the face of the internet, well it is a grift Accoarding to industry professionals and twitter twerps. Introducing one of the most successful crowdfunded independent comics this decade, despite marvel and DC dying a slow and agonizing death along with the direct market. A business model that has been dying since year 2000, despite people protesting otherwise. I have seen it myelf. Once upon a time there were a plethora of unique comics produced, translated, and published here in Norway. Now, well, now there is a handful of newspaper strips and some independent stuff that tries to market itself. Yes the direct market where a company hires people, sends the product to a press, then have it published and sold at a store. Oh right I was supposed to talk about Jawbreakers. A fairly okay comic about an expendable team of specialist dealing with a giant gorilla and some sort of nearly omnipotent being.
Yes this comic I can hold in my hands and store on my shelf is apparently a grift. Now let's take a look at wha the dictionary has to say about this very bad and bland insult.
noun
(sometimes used with a plural verb) a group of methods for obtaining money falsely through the use of swindles, frauds, dishonest gambling, etc.
Money obtained from such practices.
verb (used without object)
to profit by the use of grift:
Ethan Vansciver, a man known to have grifted for many years.
verb (used with object)
To obtain (money or other profit) by grift.
It is essential an untrue statement full of bile and venom, which is about as impactful as the term soiboy. For some insane reason people believe that soy makes men more feminine. A unfounded claim so far. Now back to the very real comic book I got for money I spent on a crowdfunding campaign.
As I mentioned earlier before going of on a tangent. Jawbreakers is a team of mercenaries with various powers and guns. Which is hired by a scantily clad tribal woman with a spear. She needs them to take care of a humongous gorilla that is stimoing through the lands. The Jawbreakers does do just that. The comic comes in full colour, with great artwork that look like is has been taken straight out of the nineties. Both the good and the bad. The story has a sense of scale and an some actual healthful moments. The last of the three stories ends on a cliffhanger though, for better or worse.
Theere are however a couple of problems I have with the Jawbreakers. Sometimes the transitions are non existent or very poorly defined. Sure the cast is varied and have various powers they use in creative ways during combat. The design is annoying bland and non descriptive. Essentially it can be very hard to tell them apart, let alone get invested in the cast. Ironically the cast is very diverse and a lot more representative than anything the progressive crowd on social media is capable of comming up with.
One of them is prettymuch blind. One is black. Then there is the man without arms and I kinda forgot about the rest. They use various super powers to bypass these limitations though.
The overall presentation is fantastic, I just cant bring myself to get Gøkning to see how the Jawbreakers end up. It has th4 same issue I have with most superhero comics I've picked up over the years. I can't really get hooked on the story at all. But do not let that stop you from embracing the future of western comics. Direct to consumer, no middle man needed.
Zaceron Signing out
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