No Future by Luke is a good looking large format black and white comic, a true life kinda thing, fast-food, fleeting moments of love like a fragile vase someone keeps throwing up in the air and catching. This is one of the truest narratives I have seen in a long time. The bombast of hipster slackertude you find in someone like Marc Bell or Joe Matt is replaced by just an urgent longing. Luke might not quite have the moves with the pen yet, but his ability to construe place and evoke potent characters is already past and development and ready for prime-time. The main character Lee is a dreamer who works at a chicken restraunt with an insane manager, a schizophrenic co- worker, a waitress who wants more from him then has to give, and a disappeared co-worker named Rukia who later turns up – well, all you really need to know is that these are compelling characters, and that No Future isn’t really about having no future, it’s about the possible present we share, all of us dogs wrestling for the same bone. (HN)
comic zine, #5 / main creator: Luke / $1 / Box 118, Earl Grey, SK, S0G 1J0