In the fourth and last issue of Justin Hall’s True Travel Tales series, we get a new batch of, well, true travel stories related by the people who lived them. Even though, as in the previous issues, all the stories are interesting and varied, I’d like to tell you a few words about one of the stories which has gay protagonists: an American gay man goes to Lima, Peru without speaking any Spanish and begins asking around for coke. Large amount of coke. He gets lucky and meets a Peruvian gay guy through whom he’ll be able to buy the coke and smuggle it by ingesting little plastic bags full of the stuff. But things won’t go that easily…
As usual, Justin Hall doesn’t present stories to judge his “characters”, but only shows what’s happening to them, and let them tell their own story without interference. He obviously like to hear people talking about their lives, and that shows in the art, which has refined itself since his debut with the Sacred Text comic.
Although that will be the last issue of the present series, I’m sure we’ll have the pleasure of reading more comics by Hall.
This self-published comic can be found at the author’s site.
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