Enjoy Pug Davis Compiled By Rebecca Sugar Listed As Softcover

I would have loved to have seen more of this story unfold, but snippets are what we get, and I suppose that's fine, The bits I got to read were a joy, and I especially liked how semigrotesque and wrinkly Rebecca's characters look in this, It's one heck of a time capsule,

If this ends up being one of their next animated projects, I would not object to seeing more of Pug Davis and The Blouse, This small collection of comics about Pug Davis and his sidekick Blouse is amazing! The art is very unique, just as much as the storylines and characters, It looks like a fever dream, but it doesn't get too crazy, It is actually just the right amount of crazy to hold the readers attention, Steven Universe'in yaratıcısının çizgi romanı, Keyifli ve hızlı bir okumaydı siyah beyaz versiyonunu okuduğum için gözlerim yoruldu ama renkli hâlini koleksiyona ekleyeceğim o çok daha iyi gözüküyor.
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En geniş şeklinde konusu ise Pug Davis ve sidekickinin uzay maceraları ve ikili ilişkilerinin derinine inmeleri, Cute! It's really interesting to see the foundations for artist i feel I know so well, Kinda rough around the edges since it's an earlier work of hers, but it's weird and interesting and definitely worth a read if you're curious about what Rebecca Sugar did before Steven Universe! After a few eBay battles, I finally managed to get my hands on a copy of old Pug Davis.
As a raging Steven Universe nerd, I was curious to see what types of indie comics Rebecca Sugar wrote back in the dayespecially after enjoying the online piece "Don't Cry For Me, I'm Already Dead," her student film "Singles," and the little random sketches from "Margo in Bed" that were published in an issue of Frontier.
Everything she writes has a life juice that speaks to me, so I assumed this would as well,

I was not disappointed,

First, let's get this out of the way: It's not very similar to Steven Universe, but there are some shared elements: queer characters, space adventures, deep and catastrophic trauma, and lots of feelings.
The differences are pretty stark for anyone who was expecting her comics to be like her cartoons the feel is much darker and bleaker than SU, and there are some brutal illustrations that depict fatal wounds and burns, violent battles, and catastrophic transformations.
The characters' situations encourage the reader to consider the implications of body horror such as Pug Davis's dog'sheadgraftedontoacyborgbody, violent homophobia Pug's sidekick has a history of experiencing gaybashing and parental rejection, and mental invasion brainhijacking aliens figure into several of the stories, swiping traumatic memories for fun and forcing the victim to relive them, or injecting foreign memories into people so they can enjoy the reaction.
There are also multiple depictions and implications of sex, some slurs and swear words, and quite a few triggery consentviolating situations, This is a pretty dark universe for something with a goofylooking doggie on the cover,

I am not a "please give me the gritty darkness" type comics reader, and actually I'd rather not deal with anything on the horror spectrum if I can help it, but I make exceptions for good writing I even like Stephen King, for instance!.
And the fantastic, layered, complex emotion in this weird lump of tales is well worth the slight creep factor, The actual type of adventures Pug and Blouse go on aren't even heavily focused upon we see their legacy in all the tall tales about the infamous Pug Davis that follow wherever he goes, and we see evidence of battle and space travel and alien encounters, but mostly what we get is the space betweenthe emotional conversations, the meeting of equals, the characters with little in common finding common ground.
Emotion is evident in every choice of expression, every careful rendering of a hand, every stance presenting or confronting or cowering or begging, It feels like real people having conversations even though it's a freaking space dog taking a space leak outside a space bar,

Every character is formed by a history, It is so refreshing to meet characters who lived before page one, who have complex motivations besides romantic relationships and killing bad guys, who are still discovering things about each other and revealing multiple layers of their existence.
It's so good to meet characters as we meet peoplepart way through their lives, not as they begin them or end them, I couldn't be more pleased with the honesty and authenticity of these characters, and I so much appreciate how relatively simple they are about presenting just enough for us to know so much more.
I just adored this.

And yes, if you're curious, it's pretty funny sometimes too, I laughed out loud at least twice,.
Pretty cozy little comics, I thought they were pretty fun but definitely weren't particularly special, There's some great designs and style but the comedy and emotions aren't always super strong, I'd only recommend it to fans of Rebecca Sugar's work, but it's a quick read that's totally worth it if you're interested in their earlier stuff, Rebecca Sugar's first comic book does little to show where the greatness that is Steven Universe came from as a dull toughguy Pug manimal and his fully human gay sidekick bop around outer space having gonowhere adventures

that are neither humorous or thrilling.
Pug Davis takes place in a sort of retrofuture, a world envisioned by dreamers in the Eisenhower Era and spurred on by the developments of the Kennedy Era,

The hero of the comic is the titular Pug Davis: a defender of Earth with an American flag emblazoned on his chest, A bareknuckles brawler. A man of action with a puppy for a head, Hes basically Buck Rogers if Buck was a surly old marine, He makes no attempt to hide that hes a grizzled sourpuss, tossing about politically incorrect epithets that he may or may not mean,

Pugs past is a mystery, and he burdens a hidden pain that becomes apparent when you look at him directly in those big puppydog eyes, Hes also got a sort of Jesse James or Billy the Kid reputation: killers seem to be popping out of the woodwork just to see if they can take a crack at the infamous Pug Davis.
I Love Pug Davis! The fluid drawings are worth the price of admission, But these stories are weird, funny and emotional, and I wish there was more! Also there is a character named Blouse which is a top ten fictional character name of all time.
Queria ter uma pontinha do talento da Rebecca Sugar aaaaffffff A fun space adventure by the creator of Steven Universe and former Adevnture Time writer/artist, I don't know why it's so hard to find, but it's worth a read if you can track it down, I'd love to see more stories set in this universe someday, Pug Davis is a space adventurer and Earth defender who inexplicably has a dog head on a man's body, He has a story, and his sidekick Blouse has known him and supported him and been rescued by him for some time before he finds out what that story is.
Pug Davis's reputation precedes him he's infamous, feared, and respected, and he does what he's gotta do whatever that is, We follow Pug Davis and Blouse as they confront crafty enemies, deal with mechanical and physical setbacks, and get harassed by memorystealing brain aliens, On the way, we learn about both their pasts, and watch them explore who they are to each other,

Really incredible work here, if pretty goshdang weird, I'm a Steven Universe fan coming to Rebecca's indie comics after the fact, so obviously I am unable to avoid comparing, and I've got to say it's wonderful to see how the soul of Rebecca's style is untarnished in this set of stories too.
I love that Blouse, the sidekick, is more of a perspective character than Pug is, and that his homosexuality is sometimes wrapped up in something funny happening but it isn't a vehicle by which he becomes the joke.
The horrors of both of their pasts strengthen their bonds though Pug seems a little shirty about admitting it, and even though their adventures are weird and sort of directionless, there's a feeling of emotion and groundedness throughout all these wild happeningsa feeling of recognition of the realness in people who couldn't exist, so far away, in a backwards reality.
I was captivated by these characters and this soulful way of balancing words with gestures, actions with ideas, I'm so glad I was able to find a copy of this treasure and enjoy this weird and wonderful story, .