I didn’t love King City, but I feel I could. A very odd comic, King City is a reprint of an already completed Manga work. It is the story of a lock picker and his weaponized cat living in an alternate universe whose rules are not yet clear (let’s just say one of the characters is an ornery former “super-naut” Sasquatch who runs a hotel for spies underneath the freeway and leave it at that). The art is minimalistic and straddles that line between untalented and highly stylized—I suspect that as the series progresses and the creator gets comfortable with his vision, we’ll see it tilt more and more to the stylized side. The dialogue features several laugh out loud moments, which alone justify the price of the comic (my personal favorite: “I suppose if you’re up against a guy with a cat, you’re gonna want something on your side too.”) At this point, the plot, the art, and the world are too undefined for me to fully endorse this as a great work; but there is certainly a great deal of potential here. If Brandon Graham can sow together the seemingly nonsensical and potentially wonderful strands he’s laid out here, the could be a series to watch and love.