A review by jakekilroy
Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks

4.0

What a sweet, goofball love letter to comics. Strangely fantastical yet grounded, with a heartfelt optimism to balance out its sense of inevitable cynicism that comes with art, the whole thing reads disjointed at first, or it did to me (though I was down for cruising all over the road), and then it starts to form a picture that you'd very much like to believe it, that there is this world somewhere. Comic shops are already something of a safe haven, so if there was a whole town like that on the other side of the world, fearlessly and furiously into an entire medium? Damn. It's hard not to fall into it with your arms behind you. Plus, it always helps when there's a total '90s villain and a big mystery attached.