Longshot Comics by Shane Simmons is at one extreme end of the comic book artistic spectrum. In Scott McCloud’s book Understanding Comics, McCloud talked about the different types of art in comic books. From realistic to shapes to words are the corners of the art triangle. Longshot Comics deals deep inbetween words and shapes, by presenting all the characters as dots. That’s right every character is represented by a small dot. And to make sure the dot doesn’t get lost in the panel, the book is composed of 24 pages of 160 panels. Each page has 16 rows of 10 columns of panels each of which has 1 or more small dots representing people. Now if you figure that a regular comic book has about 6 panels per page. this 24 page book is the equivalent of 32 regular 20 page comic books. Now is it worth reading?

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