It’s not like I could easily say what genre my existence is. That’s where the “what genre is life?” question comes in handy. The idea Layman had behind that argument was this: “What genre is life?”Īs much as we love to classify comics or stories of any variety into nice and neat buckets like horror or science fiction or adventure or whatever, most tales we engage with blur the lines between each of them in a way that makes them indistinguishable from one another except on the highest of levels. I don’t remember specifics of when the interaction was – it might have been his visit to Off Panel, it might have been another time – or what the context for the moment was, but I recall writer John Layman 15 once suggesting to me that his series Chew with artist Rob Guillory was effectively genre-less. Post Hype Machine is a recurring column on SKTCHD built to move against that trend, as it will exclusively be looks at – that’s right, I’m not calling it a review, I’m calling it a “look at” – titles in their second arcs or later. On to the next is the typical mindset, with what’s new leading the way for readers, comic sites and beyond. The comic industry has a short memory, as titles are hyped on the approach to their first issue and often forgotten shortly thereafter.
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