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...West Point from his Connecticut prep school to become an officer and a gentleman but fell in love with the mud and marches of the infantry. Tom Pae, the son of Korean artists, feels his parents' pride in his success and their fear about what comes next. Kristen Beyer was recruited for swimming, not soldiering, and struggled to find her place in the post-9/11 Army--until she first got a taste of flying a Blackhawk. Now she, too, is eager to join the long gray line of West Point graduates alongside her thousand fellow cadets of the class...
...Kristen Beyer is here too, sober and in jeans, a pink blouse and flip-flops. She has been making the rounds, smiling broadly. She's not talking military, not thinking military. She just likes being with friends, nodding along to the music. There are a few other characters in attendance--the cadet band thrashing out speed-rock covers, a Vietnam War hero dispensing advice at the bar, an exchange cadet from Uzbekistan playing drinking games in the corner--but by and large, it's all Firsties. The mood is convivial and congratulatory. The Firstie Club is like a sports...
...tell her? Exchanging silent looks we telepathically concurred that it was impossible. Better to leave it and save her from such a shock in a public place. It was a uniquely urban moment that would have been perfectly at home in recent books, "Amy and Jordan" by Mark Beyer and "How Loathsome" by Ted Naifeh and Tristan Crane. Both contain all of the paranoia, sleaze, danger and irresistible vitality of life on the city's edge...
...Jordan" (Pantheon; 288 pages; $21) collects Mark Beyer's comic strip that ran in a select few alternative weekly newspapers during the early 90s. A tour de force of the form, it combines wild, fever-dream visions with dark, existentialist gag humor. Beyer takes all the clich?s of the traditional "laugh-a-day" strip and turns them inside out. The typically cute, bourgeois family of the dailies has been replaced by Amy and Jordan, a fear-filled, childless couple who live in a nameless city full of bugs, aliens, dirt and neighbors like Dame Head, who is just a head...
...disturbingly funny profundities of "Amy and Jordon" may not even be the best reason for reading it. Beyer's strip was the most visually inventive since the turn-of-the-century height of newspaper cartoonists like Winsor McCay and Lyonel Feininger. Drawing in a black and white style that could well be classified as Art Brut, it defies any preconceptions of what a comic strip should look like. Beyer stuffs his raw caricatures into the corners of zany layouts, no two of which are alike. And a good thing, too. It would be unreadable otherwise. Even smart strip collections like...