Ok, first off, we ooh and ahhh at the fabulous Mark Ryden cover. OOOOOOOOOHHHHH. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH.

Ok, now on to content. I like Blab, much as I like most comics journals, like McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, because I like finding artists and storytellers that I didn't already know, or didn't know I knew, or who just make really interesting and different artwork. And like all of these, there are some works in Blab that are derivative of a number of other artists. But there are always some that really surprise and tantalize. Issue 11 is really good, even aside from the cover. I've heard Blab described as a printed form of Liquid Television, and that's pretty apt. ( )