The Underwater Welder

Warbly lines, nice splotches of monochromatic watercolor, and general gloom. This is a story I feel like I've heard a thousand times: (white) (male) (New Englander) Young Protagonist is haunted by his boozey, yet lovable, father and his mysterious disappearance from many moons ago. This comic gets marks for storytelling and craftsmanship, but demerits for the VERY thin plot and characterizations. They kind of market it as a Twilight Zone ep, which I can see: black and white, weird stuff that usually involves alienating, empty Coastal Small Town Americas, and then kind of a trite moral (“get over it”). Meh.