Lovers in the Garden is a lovely Retrofit comic book that I got in the mail this week. It's the story of two early 1970s hit men who set up a drug deal to kill one of their competitors, but they've been double crossed. Their boss wants them dead, and one of the two is sleeping with an undercover cop. The other is telling his life story to an alcoholic reporter. There are a number of ancillary stories about the reporter, the two hit men, their boss, and everyone else involved.
This is just simply fantastic. I say that about a lot of comics because this blog is more a celebration of comics rather than a critical review of them, but Lovers in the Garden is one of the better titles I've read in the past few weeks, maybe the past few months. The artwork has a crayon feel to it, although it's done in colored pencils. There's an anachronism where one of the characters talks about "heels" in pro wrestling, but I guess she could have had some inside information. We often forget how common "inside" information about the wrestling world is today.
Lovers in the Garden is available on the Retrofit Comics website (Google it), and it's on Amazon.com, although it's out of stock at the moment. I paid around $90 for a Retrofit comic a month, but it's well worth the $10 list price. Again, the best deal is to subscribe to Retrofit. It's totally worth it.
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