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...between California and Mexico, brought a large piece of their Southwest home to a snowy Boston, opening with a lively rendition of the Spanish-guitar driven “Minas de Cobre.” The effect was only enhanced by projected images of galloping horses and frontman Joey Burns?? appropriately denim-and-flannel attire. The band is much more than their Southwestern background, however. Their varied set, nearly mostly drawn from their forthcoming album, ranged from latin-tinged country to dissonant indie rock, but consistently connected with an audience that treated even new songs like old favorites.Calexico...
...whereas Clowes stops at depicting all the people you hate, Burns takes it one step farther, adding monsters and phantasmagoric twists. Burns?? work is best encapsulated in his hilariously disturbing “McSweeney’s” issue title page cover: A silver screen starlet embraces a creature covered in sores while a nuclear mushroom cloud explodes in the background. His work borrows heavily from the pulpy comics of the 1950s but combines the familiar elements with overwhelmingly vivid ink drawings...
...Black Hole” is Burns?? most chilling work to date. This is no small achievement for a man who produced “Skin Deep: Tales of Doomed Romance,” the collection which included “Dog Days,” the tale of a teenaged boy who receives a canine heart transplant. Another Burns favorite is “Big Baby,” an uglier version of “Desperate Housewives” with more violence, told from the point of view of a strange child...
...Burns?? latest follows the fates of a group of teenagers in mid-seventies Seattle as they fall victim to a mysterious sexually transmitted disease known as “the Bug.” The origins of the disease are never revealed, but that omission is unimportant amidst the grotesque developments and explicit violence presented in perfect detail. As Burns has remarked, “It was extremely fucking labor-intensive...
...founder Lizzie Burns??a biochemist from London whom Farley met while studying at the University of Oxford—is not a stranger to deviating from her mathematical roots. [CORRECTION APPENDED...