This is a Mini Comic, done Jack Chick style. It has little to do with religion, it's about a creator trying to sell his independent comics. Tod talks about how the outside world views comics and how his local comic shop can't sell his books. Towards the end we have jokes about going to hell, an endorcement from Jesus Christ, and some advertisements. Tod does a good job of stating his case in this mini comic and his artwork is nice a mix of simple and detailed. He does a good job of showing peoples emotions by both facial expressions and body language. I give this a 4 out of 5 stars.

Young American Comics almost Fall Sampler #5 August 2002 By Various Creators Price: 50 Cents

The cover has a yak telling us there are a lot of ads in the book. If I hadn't gotten this for free that probably would have turned me off of paying 50 cents for it. The front page has a note from Tod C Parkhill and a small table of contents. The first story is Raisin Head in Conned by Brian Morante. It's a two page story done in a very cartooney style. Somewhat reminds me of the Ren and Stimpy cartoon. Basically it's about how San Diego Comic Con has little variety (superheroes!) and is a gathering of geeks. We then get two pages of ads. The 2nd story is The End of the World as We Know it by Tod C Parkhill. This is a two page story about Michael Stipe of REM wanting to destroy the world by having everything audio play his "only true hit" at a high volume at the same time. He succeeds. The last page of this two page story is devoted to the worlds destruction. Tod does a good job with non-sequantial storytelling, something I don't see done well very often. Tod continues to show his strength in facial expressions and body language within this story. The last page is an ad for budge comix, a multi-artist, non-sequitur, random sequence comic. Surprisingly the inside front and back covers were left blank. I personally would have prefered they filled this area with ads and put more comics on the pages. As it is, it feels too little for the 50 cents. I give this comic a 2 out of 5 stars.

Robot By Jon Clary no publisher, no price

This comic looks like it was drawn in 15 minutes, if that. Basically about one robot trying to fuck another one. They meet, they agree to hang out. They do fuck (male robot genitals are shown). Throughout the story The male keeps asking "How was dinner" and the female keeps talking about other stuff. At the end he gets fed up and says "Bitch You Suck." Despite the simple story, it bounces around confusing you. This comic makes me feel stupid. First I wasted 30 seconds reading it, secondly for wasting my time writing this review. It gets 0 out of 5 stars. Regards, Jamie Coville

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