A review by robertrivasplata
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore

adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

Compilation of Passmore's comics. Kind of like a Creepshow movie, if it had some news reporting from anti-racist protests thrown in. A lot of these are pretty out there. I'd say “GoodBye or the State of Nature: a Comik” is the most difficult to get my head around. It's hard to pick a favorite out of all of these stories. A Pantomime Horse I is an incredible combo of a mysterious story, surrealism, weird art, & real emotions. I loved the twist in The 100% True story called Ally I Need is Love. The title story is the most cringey (appropriately). Passmore is great at creating characters that are just barely concealing some feral nature. Many of these stories need to be re-read a couple times.