Created by: Luke Pearson
Let's get this out of the way first. This comic is four pages of strip, with a couple more of development sketches and notes, and cost me £2.00. It is also free on-line. Despite all this, I have to say that £2.00 is a bargain and you should all go out and buy it now (Page 45 may still have some copies).
The artist quite clearly states in his introduction that you can go to his website and print out as many copies as you want. However £2.00 will provide support for an extremely promising UK creator to create more high quality work, and you can never have too much of that.
This is a clever little strip, showing how we are all "some people" and we are all in some way linked together. We start with a young man being abused by a youth wearing an outfit designed to strike fear into the Daily Mail readers amongst us, a hoodie. We then see this youth ageing to become a cuddly Grandad to a little girl, who then ages to become a bitter single mother with a daughter of her own whose classmate...
You can see how this is going. Luke Pearson introduces us to each character for four panels, time passes and we get a link to another person, until eventually we come back round to the young lad from the start as a disillusioned middle aged man spending all his time at the pub rather than with his family. The underlying theme is similar to Ray Fawkes' more ambitious One Soul, and it is remarkable how much empathy the artist elicits from the reader for these characters that we meet for only a brief period.
In his introduction, Luke Pearson says, "If I was to die right now, this is what most people would know me for.". I have to say that if that was to have happened, we would be mourning the loss of such huge potential. As I write this I have learned that he has a new book out called Everything We Miss published by Nobrow (a review of which you can find by the ever reliable Stephen Holland here) so with a bit of luck we have plenty more work to look forward to.
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