‘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
