Digital is great, easy and cheap. Everyone should do it. Getting them in print was again pricey and a bit challenging, but thanks to the efforts of fec comics and my actually having dollars I can squander on them, I can get slick bits of paper with these cool pictures on them. I like that.
(I lifted the picture from fec comics, they sell Kranburn, and other stuff. You should go there and buy stuff.)
The cover of issue #10 is again a scene from the inside, nicely colored. It might be the most fun picture in the whole of Kranburn, the enormity of the thighs, the horror of the shorts, the pot on his head, the lobster claw mitts, I wonder what the "KSB" on the belt buckle is for.
The story picks up immediately with Lawton and his captor. Then quickly shifts to Brand preparing for his last "big swing". In both cases, the tables are turned and horrifying violence ensues. Lawton brutalizes his tormentor. Brand is caught in Nong territory and is chased by a mob of crazed thugs.
As far as readers of the webcomic are concerned, I realized I can't help but drop spoilers in reviewing something that won't hit the webcomic for more than a year. Rather than wait a year, I'll again encourage more of you to go to fec comics and buy Kranburn when it comes out, at least the digital issues.
Brand is in deep trouble. Unprepared and outnumbered, he's running for his life. He realizes they want him alive, and decides to die while killing as many Nong as he can. Holing up in a building, the only escape is off the roof.
This issue is one of the most action packed and brutally violent of the whole story. If you're not interested in furious depictions of the brutality people are capable of inflicting on each other, then Kranburn is not for you, especially this issue. But if you're reading this, chances are that you might enjoy the artistic capability and the gonadular fortitude BMB displays with this work, like I do.
The cover picture, it turns out, is edited. I really almost bust out laughing when I saw it in the story. I wore shorts like that back in the day, but not quite like that.
A scene I didn't get, that I think might be important to the story, is when Brand looks out a window up in the building, at Brutus standing out in the rain, and flips him off, Brutus smirks, looks away like something hit his face (besides rain?), then looks back in shock. Maybe it's nothing or it's just a bit of creativity in the timeline, maybe it will be explained in the webcomic.
I wonder what happens to Lawton. Can he make it back to Kranburn? I wonder what happens to Brand. Does he survive, or is this the rare story that continues after the demise of its protagonist? I wonder about Syliva, I wonder about Egon, I wonder how or if that Berrik slave trade story is going to reappear. It's almost a cliffhanger. Hopefully in a few weeks another issue tells me more.
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