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Self Help #1 - Part 1: 'No Bars' (June 19, 2024)

writer(s): Owen King and Jesse Kellerman | artist [penciller & inker]: Marianna Ignazzi | colorist: Fabiana Mascolo | letterer: Ian Chalgren | editor: Chris Ryall | publishing company: Syzygy Publishing [Image Comics]

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Self Help #5 (variant cover) (2024)

Art by: Stephen Byrne

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Self Help vol 1 TPB - spoiler-free (ish) review

Self Help vol 1 TPB from Image comics by Owen King, Jesse Kellerman and art by awesome Marianna Ignazzi is an indie crime comic.

The genre is "California noir* and my initial interest was piqued by " in tradition of The Big Lebowski and The Long Goodbye ". Oh so we are setting the bar high, are we?

But then the back blurb that first described our powerless, down-on-his-luck rideshare driver who happens to be a dead ringer for a self-help guru Darren Hart , ok that seems decent, but then it went: "a surrfal and colorful world filled with liars, two-faced talk show hosts, cheerful Finnish mobsters, bloodthirsty white supremacists, snide English butlers, and panther-wielding Eurotrash assasins "

Finnish mobsters? As a comics nerd, crime fiction fan and a native Finn I was hooked.

First things first: Marianna Ignazzi nails it. Art slams, slaps and is fire. ( I know: no-one young uses those phrases anymore) She knows her stuff, visual storytelling is great.

And I like the mistaken identities story, that works. The Finnish part I have issues with. Not naming the panther as Kulta (= Finnish for dual meaning either Gold or Dearest/Beloved) but the cheerful part. Yes we were again the" Happiest nation in the World" but us finns are not outgoing, happy or talkative unless drunk/ otherwise inebriated. Oh, but maybe Ove Kahru is of Finnish-Swedish minority? Maybe, but Kahru is misspelled Karhu, Finnish for bear. Atypical for that minority and his daughter's name Pipsa supports this.

And the used Finnish English accent is plainly fucked. Yes there is such a thing as"rally English" ie english language spoken with Finnish accent. But it would not be "DAY-ren..." as in the comic. We pronounce all written consonants and vowels. It would be "DaRReN.." Do not take my word, but that of a brit living in Finland

But yeah, decent neo-noir pulp with good art. Will read the next part.

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Reaching to dish her more garlic noodles, I noticed that I was sitting up taller, my body big and open. I’d been carrying around so much tension for so long that it had become my resting state, imperceptible until I was free of it.

Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman, Crime Scene

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Self Help #1 (2024)

Art by: Marianna Ignazzi and Fabiana Mascolo

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[PREVIEW] Self Help #1 (June 19, 2024)

writer(s): Owen King and Jesse Kellerman | artist [penciller & inker]: Marianna Ignazzi | colorist: Fabiana Mascolo | cover artist: Marianna Ignazzi | publishing company: Syzygy Publishing [Image Comics]

synopsis: In Self Help, readers are introduced to down-on-his-luck rideshare driver Jerry Hauser, whose existence is a bleak one…especially because every fare he picks up tells him how much he looks like ultra-successful self-help guru Darren Hart. But in a twist of fate, Jerry is given the chance of a lifetime…which, if he’s not careful, may well end his lifetime. So begins this rollicking and gleefully lurid pulp crime story.

From there the story races ahead at an ever-increasing speed, and with an ever-increasing body count, as Jerry assumes his rival’s identity, fights to keep a lid on the murder, fends off the Euro-gangsters to whom Darren was heavily indebted, placates Darren’s calculating assistant Cassandra, and rebuilds his relationship with his estranged ex-wife Michelle and daughter Amelia. Oh, and he also needs to avoid the white supremacists that hold Jerry’s personal marker—except to them, he’s Danny McClure—and keep up his Drÿvÿr rating

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Self Help

Self Help Eine surreale und bunte Welt, bevölkert von doppelzüngigen Talkshow-Moderatoren, fröhlichen finnischen Mafiosi, blutrünstigen weißen Rassisten, abfälligen englischen Butlern und pantherschwingenden Euro-Trash-Killern. Der Co-Autor von Owen King ist Jesse Kellerman. Jesse hat fünf Einzelromane, sechs Romane in Zusammenarbeit mit seinem Vater, Jonathan Kellerman, eine Reihe von…

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Comic Book Club: Owen King, Jesse Kellerman, And Chris Ryall

On this week's live show, we're welcoming guests Chris Ryall, Owen King, and Jesse Kellerman ("Self Help")!

On this week’s live show, we’re welcoming guests Chris Ryall, Owen King, and Jesse Kellerman (“Self Help”)! SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, APPLE, SPOTIFY, OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, TIKTOK, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. Powered by RedCircle Comic Book Club Live Info: Want to watch Comic Book Club live? We stream every Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET to YouTube,…

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