Thank you for the belly laughs - remembering "Curly"

We were hugely saddened last week to hear of the sudden passing of one of our first and most regular in-store customers here in the Peebles shop.

Curly, as he was known to everyone, came into the shop like clockwork every Wednesday at 3:25pm and every Saturday. He loved Judge Dredd, Horror, Munchkin and sci-fi and we spent a good long time talking about the art and stories in our favourite comics and graphic novels. He loved a Previews week and took the catalogue home to bring it back with an A4 list of wants. I still have the last few lists under my laptop keyboard. He kept a pair of glasses at the shop so he could browse as he always forgot to bring them. He was a huge part of our comic and gaming community.

He wrote this review of Elena by Jorge Jaramillo from Afterlight Comics, one of his favourite books of the last year, shortly before he passed and we'd love you to read what he thought about it.

3:25pm on a Wednesday will never be the same, thanks for all the belly laughs Curly!

Review of Elena
TOP RECOMMENDATION OF THE MONTH! By C. Wurly
From Afterlight Comics, written and illustrated by Jorge Jaramillo, "Elena" is the story of Carl O'Malley and his distorted idea of love.
There are no supernatural doings or goings on. Just. The. Horror.
The palette of watercolours: red, green, brown & blue looks gorgeous on a super high-quality feel paper stock. It even smells great, full of musty musk secrets. Some pages and panels suck away the air with clever, 3D depths of field and puppetry to animate a lovers corpse. A cracked and broken papier-mache death mask can really creep you out if stared at for too long, but not enough to stop you wanting to re-read the entire story once again and immediately!

ELENA GRAPHIC NOVEL (MATURE) – Peebles Comics & Games