“Now if I can just remember where I parked.”
Gritt Grimstone: Tales From A Far Out Future
SnowyWorks (2022)
CREATOR/WRITER/LETTERER: Drew D. Lenhart
ARTISTS: Hernan Molina & Rowel Roque
My copy is downloaded from Drive Thru Comics, but apparently they also made the story available to read online (though it could just be a preview as I didn’t go through all of their version). This is also an anthology of stories so I’m going to run through these quick.
The framing device appears to be a hundred plus year old Gritt telling tales of his adventures to a bored kid at some event. It’s not a bad way to go about it.
“My Way Or The Space Way”
The story stops in the middle to go to the next story. Some villain group has Gritt stuck in a VR simulation trying to find the location of a secret space station but he keeps messing up their plans by not doing what they want him to do in the simulation. There’s also the original text version of the story with a slightly different version of the twist.
“1,2,3…3,2,1”
A pair of girls learn their father is a robot. Gritt tells this story because he saw one being one of the servers. Okay. It’s a silly little story and like the kid I don’t see the point in it when he didn’t finish the last story. I’m writing these as I read, by the way. I’m starting to think that’s all this is, a series of short stories with Gritt and the kid being the only connecting element.
“The Suit Made It To Europa”
A shapeshifting alien attacks a base and an investigator investigates. Since I’m linking to the comic for you to read I won’t spoil the ending, but now that I’ve accepted what this comic is the twist isn’t bad.
“My Way Out”
Gritt continues his story from the VR simulation trap at the start of the comic. Nice to see that come around given the nature of the comic. I’m curious how he got out. Again, not spoiling that, but it shows Gritt is no fool. And all of the stories we’ve seen come together in our final twist that sadly doesn’t have a resolution when it comes to the framing device. I wasn’t expecting that and it really ties everything together nicely.
overall
While I wish the comic didn’t end on a cliffhanger the story overall was well drawn. The stories were kind of short for my tastes and the only story that doesn’t matter is Robot Daddy, but it still matches a running theme of the stories: things are not what they seem. It was a decent readthrough but it’s not a comic I’d come back to a lot. Once all the twists are in the stories are too short to really draw me back.
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