Key Change offers up 32 packed pages of 21st Century 20-something urban life, comics-style.  There's plenty of attitude, irony, laughs and more.  MacDiarmid knows his way around the comics language. These pages have a density that well embodies the up close and personal manner of urban living.  Readers are able to get right up to speed even as they are plunged in medias res  into obviously long running relationships with plenty of back story; not an easy trick to pull off.  In addition to great pacing, there's a leveraging of the inherent qualities of the representational aspects of comics language, as when characters' physical attributes are employed as a shorthand for their personalities; and there are plenty of great characters here.

This is the first of a promised three-issue series.  It might be a minute before the next one arrives, but we'll be waiting.

#2 is here!  Just out of the box... You may have noticed that this issue underwent a price increase of 33%, so you might be thinking, man, inflation strikes again... BUT NO – because it also experienced a 100% increase in page count!  Yes, that's right:  this issue is a whoppin' 64 pages – 3 of which are in full color.  That makes the price per page 33% less, so actually... DEAL! 

Will have more to share soon...

Also, for anyone who missed out: restock of #1 (click on thumbnail below).