Taking a skip week with MAGICTOWN, but in the meantime, here’s a script for a comic broadside I did a while back.

Rain streaks from a blacktop sky on the asphalt
shingles of the covered bridge, the collaborative
Great American Novel scrawled in magic marker

“We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.”

Overton County sits high upon the Cumberland Plateau. No one ever goes there on purpose. But it is full of the stories that make life worth living.

Returning from a trip to the American West, Brandon has brought with him a collection of images that explore the bizarre coexistence of life where the desert meets the ocean.

Chapter 14 of MAGICTOWN: The Man in the Mist

A man in sunglasses
reads villanelles slowly,
arm held out like waiting,
like the ‘hold up, wait a minute”

A dark lady with dark purposes.

Brandon’s away for his brother’s wedding and he’s left us with a collection of photographs from a bachelor weekend he’s dubbed Bachelortron

Chapter 13 of MAGICTOWN: The Man in the Mist

Amy set photographs of suicides taken after the fact, after cleaning,
under stained glass, reliquaries of echo she called them.

A modest attempt to find a purpose for Twitter.

Catfish can’t get satisfaction anywhere. Not with Latonya. Not with Kool-Aid’s fat, smokin’ momma. If Freud was correct then Catfish don’t care.

It’s amazing the places you can walk into with some fancy clothes, a little id card, and an impressive black bag.

Chapter 12 of MAGICTOWN: The Man in the Mist

When the creek rivers, when it floods
we hang from covered bridges and
when Ben gives the word, we drop.

Description: A telepathic, dimension hopping worm riding around in one dapper looking corpse. What’s not to love?

Catfish drinks off his three-day hangover. Ted calls him a coward. Catfish dreams of his first adventure with Kool-Aid.

An office complex, after dark, when everyone has gone home. Brandon sees it as would an explorer in a foreign land, everything is new, and all meanings self-ascribed.

Chapter 11 of MAGICTOWN: The Man in the Mist