GSB's Column: Gary Checks Out GET OUT, And Tries CRUNCHYROLL

GUEST COLUMN BY INDIE COMICS CREATOR GARY SCOTT BEATTY

If you're at MuskeCon this Saturday in Muskegon, Michigan, stop over and say "hey."   https://www.facebook.com/events/4839555206164015   I finally saw Jordan Peele's "Get Out," (2017) a wonderfully strange story with the '70s B-horror movie pacing and mood-making I love so much. Picture "The Stepford Wives" for black people. Super creepy. I wish more movies, let alone horror movies, had such depth and theme, it makes "Get Out" way more interesting than some slasher-of-the-week thing. I rented it on Amazon. Recommended. +++   Maybe I should have just kept reading Warren Ellis' FreakAngels, but Comixology did a piss-on-readers nosedive and I wanted to try Crunchyroll, new streamers of anime and manga. First Crunchyroll: The free experience is far from satisfying, but workable. Instead of carefully placing ads at breaks, ads impose on the action and there are far too many of them. Next FreakAngels: It was first a webcomic by Ellis and artist Paul Duffield, then published in book format by Avatar Press. A dozen young psychics live in Whitechapel years after civilization in Great Britain is destroyed. I enjoyed reading the first book, with its slow, exciting reveals of each FreakAngel and their plans to bring civilization back to Whitechapel. Think young mutants after the end of the world. If you want to try the first season for free you can find FreakAngels here. Pay if you must, but, personally, I have more streaming choices than I can handle right now. https://www.crunchyroll.com/freakangels/episode-1-one-826383 +++ You're still here, and so am I, so we're proven stronger than those forces trying to beat us down. So far, there are more of us than there are of them. Take care of yourself. You are not alone. In glorious service to our Aazurn overlords, Gary Scott Beatty https://www.patreon.com/garyscottbeatty