It all starts here! It's appropriate to follow New Engineering with Powr Mastrs* (and not only because both are published by PictureBox) as C.F. is, like Yokoyama, very much engaged in challenging the standard representations of time and space in contemporary comics. There is, notably, quite a bit more story -- as well as humanity -- in C.F.'s work, however. What people are doing, where they are going, how they are making their way and when they are going to get together all figure prominently in Powr Mastrs, if in an oblique way. There is a real organic quality to the work here, a quality which is enhanced by the work being rendered wholly in pencil with no attempts made to add any effects of any sort. C.F. has produced quite a few small print run, self-published comics (as well as appearing in numerous anthologies, including this year's America's Best -- see below) and has long had a cult following among what has come to be know as the "Fort Thunder crowd." Now, with the release of Powr Mastrs, everyone has a chance to see what all the fuss is about. We think quite a few comics readers are in for a pleasant surprise. 120 pages; embossed flexi-cover.
*(As it did when this review originally appeared).
Originally released in 2008 (and originally posted to our site in December of that year), this book has been long out of stock here at Copacetic, and – we thought – long out of print. BUT, lo and behold, we have discovered a heretofore hidden cache of these and now have them back in stock, amd at our standard discount, to boot!
The most asked about sequel of recent memory is here. Jack Kirby meets Henry Darger in C.F.'s psychedelic saga.
WAREHOUSE FIND!
(PLEASE NOTE: We're down to our last few of these, and then.... GONE!)
A cult comic book series if ever there was one, the third installment of Powr Mastrs continues the mind-altering adventures of its paradigm-shifting cast of characters. As the title indicates, Powr Mastrs is a true comic book adventure series, but where other comics deal with mutants as characters, the Powr Mastrs series is itself a mutant; a super hero comic book infected by a virus from outer space.
