‘A Choir of Rejected Angels’
A Song of Words by Tauriq Moosa and Jason Lenox
© 2015 James LaFond
JUN/29/15
2015, Ugli Studios Presents #3, pages 17-18
A man, haggard, worn, and yet meditative, sits in a yoga pose in the center of a great unused library channeling unknown songs yet to be sung by invasive voices.
Then ‘something comes unbidden’ and he is left with the writer’s choice to compromise and mutilate the story he has been given.
In this disturbingly poetic script, shadowed by what I think is Jason’s best black and white work, Taurig Moosa crafts a searing metaphor for the writer’s mind—hooked in, as it is, to the collective human mind. One might be forgiven for wondering if this illustrated verse were aimed at Stephan King’s auctioned heart, with the lich hand of Robert E. Howard delivering the spear thrust.
For me, as a prose writer enthralled by verse and who only dabbles in comics, A Song of Words, is the most powerful comic of any length, I have read.

all-power-fighting

menthol rampage

songs of aryas

on combat

solo boxing

the lesser angels of our nature

time & cosmos

hate

the first boxers

advent america

barbarism versus civilization

winter of a fighting life

into leviathan’s maw

cracker-boy

the sunset saga complete

when you're food

night city

america the brutal

triumph

on the overton railroad

honor among men

dark, distant futures

z-pill forever

sorcerer!

by the wine dark sea

wife—

the greatest boxer

the greatest lie ever sold

broken dance

fate

the combat space

predation

let the world fend for itself

song of the secret gardener

the year the world took the z-pill

within leviathan’s craw

your trojan whorse

the gods of boxing

logic of steel

book of nightmares

masculine axis

ranger?

thriving in bad places

fiction anthology one

orphan nation

fanatic

son of a lesser god

logic of force

blue eyed daughter of zeus

taboo you

under the god of things

the fighting edge