Turning Trix #2

 

Writer and

artist: Mike Aston

Rating: 4 of 8

Turning Trix #2

There's nothing quite as frustrating as a boring story. One that angers you for all the wrong reasons, while still bad, at least ignites a passion in you, even if it is a negative one. With those, you can rage for hours about just how bad they are, but just how much can you really say about a boring one?

Sadly, for me at least, this is one of those stories. Throughout, the issue really drags, with very little to make you want to keep reading. It almost feels kind of aimless, but even if it does have a goal in mind, I'm not sure if it was worth the journey. Most of the issue is spent on Roxy recounting a tale about her friend Trixi to Mike, a fella experiencing a little engine trouble.

It's not clear whether she does this to sate his growing curiosity, or just to fill up the time. Nevertheless, she still tells it, a tale centred around her sex crazed friend, a near death experience and the true cost of friendship. Though these are all pretty good ingredients, they never come together to make a satisfying whole.

The mix of prose, speech bubbles and art just doesn't work for me. Ultimately, how a comic book's story is meant to be told is mainly through speech bubbles and a lot of art. Prose doesn't even need to be added into the mix, but if it is, it has to be done well and it just wasn't here.

The art is alright and, as above, there's a certain vibrancy found there that just isn't present in the writing. But it just isn't there often enough to make the issue worthwhile. Like the last issue, there's a certain tongue-in-cheek quality to the writing, like the name of one of the ships, which is very sexual, much like a fair bit of the comic.

Ultimately, I just don't recommend the issue.