If You Steal

If You Steal

2015 • 208 pages

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"Jason's latest collection of full color comics indulges in his light and playful side, consisting of eleven wildly off-kilter stories that mix incongruous elements of pop culture and a variety of genres, pastiches and mash-ups in a delightful soupcon of graphic storytelling. Frida Kahlo is a hired killer. Santo, the Mexican wrestling film star, faces his ultimate challenge. The rise and fall of Chet Baker--told in six pages. Night of the Vampire Hunter. The last word on the JFK assassination conspiracies. A non-linear heist story that also somehow includes images by Magritte. A big bug story based on 1950s black-and-white films. And what would Van Morrison's Moondance album look like if it was a horror comic? All as foretold by Nostradamus, of course."--Amazon.com.

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The best Jason (that I've read so far). Short stories. A lot of playing with narrative convention. Profoundly sad. Amusingly whackadoodle.

October 29, 2021

This is a pretty mixed bag of stories that tended to be a bit more playful than Jason's normal style. I like playful on him, it looks good and he should write like that more often.

January 30, 2019