Digitally Speaking...39 "Department O"

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Department O #1 (Monkey Pipe)

From 2013.

It's extremely hard to explain what it is, so I'm going to have to explain what it's not.

Department O was not drawn by Brian Churilla.  You know, Brian Churilla, as featured in the pages of The Anchor and The Secret History of D.B. Cooper.  Both great, off-the-wall reads, by the way.  And hey, what's Brian Churilla up to these days, anyway?

Mostly, Department O can be summed up as not being drawn by Brian Churilla because the art does look vaguely like his, at least insofar as it's very hard not to notice.  In fact, in the early pages, it's really the only thing happening at all.

Which makes the whole thing more confusing.  Not because of the art, mind you.  Thank Andrew MacLean for the art, but not for the confusion.  It's not his fault Brian Churilla has worked with equally exceptional writers and he hasn't, at least in the pages of Department O.

If Department O actually explains what Department O is, I must have missed it.  The lettering isn't too great, either, mind you.

Also, Brian Churilla.  Apparently he's been doing a Big Trouble in Little China comic lately, in case you were wondering.