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Uptight #4 Jordan Crane Fantagraphics Uptight $3.55
($3.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		36 pages (that's 50% more than previous issues) of hi-octane comics from the renowned graphic arts triple-threat (comics, prints & design) all-star, Jordan Crane!  This issue picks up where the last left off:  the cover and both stories pick right up where the last issue left off.  The relationship blues are sung in "Trash Night," the second chapter of the yet-to-be-titled major narrative, in which the animal impulses always lurking in human nature are released through a combination of stresses and poor self control; while in "Dark Days," we have the continuation of last issue's "Freeze Out," in which readers are taken on another journey through the symbol-laden dream world of school days that was first introduced in Jordan's magnum opus, The Clouds Above. 
Uptight #3 Jordan Crane Fantagraphics Uptight $2.75
($2.75 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Speaking of long awaited comic books, here's another one that copacetic customers have been patiently awaiting for (quite) awhile.  Well, we're quite pleased to announce that the wait is over for what is certainly one of the finest pamphlet comic book series going.  (Although we're not sure if one issue every two years really qualifies as "going.")  This time around we have a kind-of-sort-of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde split issue in which the Dr. Jekyll component appears an unnamed, cuckolded garage mechanic who is the protagonist in the first story (although one could easily make the case that it is girlfriend, Delores, who is in fact the protagonist of this story; but that would mess up our simile) and Mr. Hyde manifests as the (re)appearance of Simon from The Clouds Above in an all new adventure which, we suspect, serves a compensatory function.  Anyway, it's safe to say that this is one comic book that no self-respecting comics reader can go without.  Especially as no one can use the excuse of being too broke to afford this one.  It's worth it just for the cover alone.