The Best Comic of the Week: Deep Cuts #5 – I love this series of one-off prestige comics about jazz music. This one, set in 1968, focuses on an aging, burned-out (in that 60s way) music critic who gets an assignment he doesn’t want – to review the work of a free jazz artist. Our … Read more
The character of Mr. Reed frightened Scott Beck and Bryan Woods years before they knew he looked like Hugh Grant. Dapper, erudite, and domineeringly cheerful in his condescension, their creation was meant to embody every suspicion, doubt, and perhaps ill thought that two lifelong friends from Iowa had about religion.
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