A Trafficker in Climaxes

And there he was, dreaming about the future. It looked bright and right and ready for him. There was no scary mystery to it and it was right around the corner.

Then he woke up and realized that, when you turn that corner, that future you have written and wished for is not always there waiting for you. In fact, it usually isn’t at all what you expected… Around the corner, there’s just another big annoying question mark.

It’s called life.

It’s an excerpt from the second issue of Daytripper. It really says a lot about all these adult-y shit things that I’m going through right now. If you haven’t read the comics, then DO! It’s beautiful and a lot of panels hit the spot. I’ve also started reading Sweet Tooth which is an apocalyptic story that involves kids who were born half-something (pig, mouse, deer, etc). I find apocalyptic stories fascinating. The comics has the whole zombie vibe to it too what with all the corpses lying around deserted streets and stuff. For the first six issues, I’ve noticed that the story is violent (guns and punches!) and gentle (doe eyes!)  at the same time. I know that’s kind of confusing but if you read the comics, you’ll know what I mean.

It’s been a lousy but fun-filled day today. I spent the entire day watching crime TV shows (Castle, The Mentalist). I like The Mentalist more because the whole Sherlock Holmes-y things that Patrick Jayne does are cool and interesting and the role is excellently played by Simon Baker. Besides, I think Castle treats death ever so lightly. I know they’re investing on the humorous/fun angle to mystery/police/detective work but popular music combined with the gory crime scenes just doesn’t appeal to me. Good thing Nathan Fillion makes up for it. Not that it’s totally bad though. It’s cool but the over-all vibe doesn’t work for me.

So yeah, that was my day. I see more dorking out tomorrow and I’m looking forward to it.

I found out about Clumsy from a few guys I follow on tumblr who were flooding my dashboard with pages from the novel around two to three weeks ago. I finally finished reading it just now and though it wasn’t anything life-changing or amazingly spectacular, it was a pleasant read from start to finish.

Clumsy is a story of two people in a long distance relationship and the book shows highlights of their relationship – from their first meeting to their breakup over the phone and through e-mail.

Anyone who has ever been in a romantic relationship that eventually fell apart (as relationships often do) will identify with Clumsy. Brown tells the story of his long distance relationship with Theresa  through a series of black and white, roughly-drawn sketches of their moments together. Every page captures days that may seem trivial at that moment but are the kind that you look back on in retrospect.

I really don’t have anything negative to say about this book other than how some texts were quite hard to read. I understand that Brown’s sketches were clumsy (no pun intended) but he could’ve at least spared the readers from getting headaches caused by reading sketchy and almost-incomprehensible fonts.

Below are some of my favorite pages from the book. They’re cute, funny and bittersweet. Enjoy!