Death Trip #1 – Review

By: Kenny Keil (story & art)

The Story: Dying in your sleep isn’t all it’s cracked up to be anymore.

The Review: In my first year at WCBR, I had the pleasure of reviewing Giant-Sized Tales to Suffice.  At the time, I didn’t have much exposure to non-Big Two comics, and considering the dubious quality of some of the indie comics I had advance reviewed, I had a certain skepticism towards comics that weren’t published through the traditional channels.  Keil’s delightfully funny, self-published, Kickstarter-funded book converted me to an indie believer.

Tales was pretty much a sketch-variety show contained in a graphic novel, and though there were some recurring features, it had no overarching plot or storyline nor even much of a theme.  It was an opportunity for Keil to pull out every joke and idea he could as rapidly as possible, moving on to the next punchline before you even fully reacted to the last, the Laugh-In of comic books.  So I was very interested to see what Keil would offer when tasked with an actual narrative.