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Not being critical. If anything, Ms. Lay's version is even sadder.
Ray Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles," published ten years earlier, in which a similar theme is explored...on Mars.
The vein of human despair is rich enough to be mined by many artists, in many different ways.
Carol Lay's art frequently leaves me cold. This one really got to me. Nice work, Ms. Lay.
Even if(sigh) we have to wait an extra three days for it.
Actually, this is an old one- I saw it in the LA Weekly a bunch of years ago. I love her work.
...when WayLay was not in its usual place, and the new comic was.
Practically the only reason I pay for salon Premium is to read these four comics. Now we have them six days a week. Such a deal.
I have always loved Carol Lay's comic. One of my all time favorites.
it must be the writers' strike...
It's not that what Ms. Lay has been doing more recently isn't good, it's that so many of her "Story Minute" pieces were so terrific. Maybe she's moved on, but I'd love it if she would revisit the old format once in a while.
So, death is the most convenient release from unhappiness? Maybe I'm misinterpreting, but this seems like a story about an old man committing suicide ("pulling the emergency stop cord").
It's just not fair! Carol Lay just nails the experience in a few short frames. I grieve for my friends who have traveled on the "windowless bus" more than once for any length of time. And I always wish I could be of more help to them.
