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Jeffrey Brown: Feeble Attempts


By Leroy Douresseaux
April 23, 2007 - 16:12

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Feeble Attempts is a one-shot comic book that collects odds and ends from cartoonist Jeffrey Brown’s work in anthology and mini-comics.  Top Shelf describes the works here as “some of Jeffrey Brown’s favorite anthology and mini-comic stories…”  There are two key questions to be asked about Feeble Attempts.  Is it a must-have for fans of Brown?  No, but it’s a “you’ll want to read this.”  Secondly, is the material in this comic the good stuff?  The answers is a double-affirmative “Hell, yeah.”

Feeble Attempts starts off a bit slow because of the material at the beginning, but there are some true gems in here.  The eight-page “Cycloctopus vs. Quantum Mechanic” superhero tale here is indicative of Brown’s deft touch with old-fashioned Silver Age super heroes that read as if they came from the Golden Age.  It’s rife with Stan Lee-like pseudo scientific babble, but the story has a feel of an old pulp tale.  Pair that with the two-pager, “My Jesus is an Awesome Jesus,” and you’ve justified at least half the cover price.

There are also a few relationship shorts in here, and they’re as good as Brown’s other boyfriend/girlfriend tales.  They, however, pale in comparison to “My Conspiracy to not Sell You the New ‘Garden State’ DVD,” which, like the film Clerks, should ring a painful but funny bell with anyone who has worked a minimum wage-type sales job.  Actually, Feeble Attempts gets better in its second half.  I didn’t know that Brown did politics, but after reading “2004 Year in Review,” I hope he does it again.

 


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