Corey Lewis

I am really starting to question if I am some contrarian hipster. I pretty go into everything sight unseen, which, for someone who is an old sensitive baby who also happens to have rather severe C-PTSD that is easily triggered, is sometimes a really bad idea, but it definitely does lead to some surprising delights truly being magical. All that to say I knew nothing about this going in, I can't understand how scathing or meh so many of the reviews are, and I absolutely fucking adored this.
(The answer to all of the above is probably the Severe AuDHD)

Sun Bakery is a collection of Lewis' older comics, some originally published as zines, which is very apparent (complimentary). There is a fun, experimental, learning-and-doing-it-for-yourself vibe in full effect here and I could totally see some of these being among the cream of the itch.io crop.

There's a bunch of characters and settings here, from What if Samus was on the 'gram, dropkick Green Lantern jacket, epic skateboarding batperson, and lots of cool swords, mechs, and quirky, cool, gals with weapons and powers and stuff (but without the usual unfortunately expected ick). It's a veritable grab bag of sick ideas and coming up with a bit and sticking to it that makes me wish I had a thimble of this dedication and follow through.

This is what happens when you don't just let your cool ideas rot in your head or interred in the notebook, never to be exhumed, and it's rad as all fucking hell.

Looking at reviews after reading this and seeing complaints about the art that make me question if we're looking at the same thing and what these people think of highly stylised art, video games like Jet Set Radio, or if they understand the subjectivity of art means that not liking something doesn't make it bad (as my absolutely loving this doesn't make it anymore than good for me). Same with the complaints about the story being brief and disjointed... It's a collection and that's part of the whole thing of just actually starting to make your own cool stuff and doing random pages and shit. Not everything has a real clear narrative and joined up story.

Anyways, I fucking loved this and need to see more of Lewis' work. Truly magnificent stuff!… (meer)

First, the art style here is really funky, and I mean that in a good way. It’s highly-stylized and unique. However, the coloring style, it reminds me of overly saturated highlighters, is distracting.

Onto the main story, it is about a wacky kickball tournament. There’s very little context given outside of some player skill cards. Things seem a bit futuristic and many players have superpowers. A few questionable things here and there (magical "drug use," of course, only female characters have moves that involve their butts, inconsistency). My recommendation: Don’t try to understand everything that’s going on. Just enjoy the chaotic energy.

There are some other side stories as well that balance the art and coloring much better than the first. I feel like this whole series would be better animated.
… (meer)