Plastic Farm #2

I'm still working on the big stack of comics my wife brought home from SPACE, and today I attended the Southcoast Toy & Comic Show. I'm going to try to do double duty for a bit to catch up.

Title: Plastic Farm
Issue: #2
Date: 2003
Publisher: Plastic Farm Press
Writer: Rafer Roberts
Artist: Rafer Roberts
Backup Story By: Jeff Coleman, Stephen Greenwood-Hyde

The second issue shows us Chester "Cheezer" Carter a bit older, and stuck in a snowed-in airport along with one cynical woman bartender and one lecherous baggage handler. Chester pulls up a barstool and tells the story of his youth in an orphanage run by a religious order that occupied a building previously used to house a psychiatric hospital (complete with all of the "old insane asylum" trimmings).

A lot of the descriptions were over-the-top to the point of being clearly black comedy, which was an effective way of presenting Chester's "origin" as something completely outrageous. I particularly liked the present version of the character, as the readers get let in on why he doesn't seem to be phased by much.

The bartender character held up her end as well with some good dialogue for Chester to bounce his story off.

The long-term plot of Plastic Farm continues to build slowly, but the details along the way are quite fascinating.

The backup story was a very silly, but effective kung fu tale from the Progressions series by Coleman and Greenwood-Hyde.

Rating: 7.5/10