The first issue covers comics' sorted past with a hard look at its' history, warts and all. Comics only started featuring original material when the format was deemed successful by the various printing companies and they didn't have enough strip work to reprint. The publishers have always looked at comic books as a cheap and fast way to make a buck, and never looked at it as an artform until it was lucrative enough for them to do so, especially here in the States. The first issue was fully researched, with a number of books and publications listed as source material. What surprised me the most were the little details that I had never realized before, despite my personal love of the industry, especially to learn just how incestuous Comics have been, how connected it all is to itself.
Comic history is literally one long chain reaction of events.
Each issue's covers are designed to reflect the content inside. The second issue of the series covers Comics' present state, especially through the eyes of a self publisher. Spank and Shock begin their own self publishing venture, and come to some pretty shocking realizations about today's market along the way. The third and final issue takes a hard look at the market's problems and what all of us can do to help Comics continue to evolve, adapt, and grow in today's culture. Instead I wanted to propose a number of solutions to what I see as our problems, something positive to think and talk about.