Category: Big Man Plans

  • Big Man Plans 4 (July 2015)

    Powell and Wiesch double down with the torture this issue of Big Man Plans (the last in this series, hopefully not ever) and it’s darn unpleasant. Powell seems to try to think of grosser and grosser panels to compose every few pages. In between the torture is the flashback to the idyllic days of Big…

  • Big Man Plans 3 (June 2015)

    There’s more torture this issue of Big Man Plans but it’s Big Man doing the torturing, not the other way around. And the people he’s torturing–whether it’s his cousin or his aunt, even though we don’t know what they’ve done to deserve it, we know they deserve it. Because, if he’s anything, Big Man is…

  • Big Man Plans 2 (April 2015)

    The first half of the issue is a whole lot better than the second half. The second half has our hero–called Big Man in the letter pages–enduring a whole bunch of torture. Page after page of it. Powell goes from drawing five or six panels a page to three. He doesn’t do backgrounds. He’s going…

  • Big Man Plans 1 (March 2015)

    The cynic in me hopes they do the Big Man Plans TV show well. I’m also hopeful for it, because if it gets a TV show, it’ll probably get another series. This series is only four issues and I can already tell I’m going to want more. Big Man Plans is about an unnamed Vietnam…