Luigi Mode Part 1. Second Printing (24PP)

Marcus is a videogame design student whose life is falling apart. On New Year's Eve 2020, help arrives from an unexpected, familiar quarter (please don't sue me, Nintendo). Now in its second printing.

Pull quote says it's "the best comic of 2020", which is clearly a printing error, since the best comic of 2020 was Simon Hanselmann's Crisis Zone. But it's nice someone said that.

This comic collects the first third of this story as originally serialised on stopjamesharvey.com. Issue two is available now, issue three will be done before the year is out (UPDATE: this prediction turned out to be accurate). Chew before swallowing.

While I'm in salesman mode I should post some of the absurdly effusive praise Luigi Mode got upon release in 2020:

“I have unholy love for James Harvey... his work is an intersection between comicbooks, animation, manga, zines, contemporary art, fashion design, and graphic design... there is absolutely nothing, nothing else like it anywhere right now.” - Ganzeer (The Solar Grid, Walls of Freedom, Arabesque)

"Like a Shintaro Kago Premise evolved into a 2000AD saga... forget before Before Christ and After Death. We should mark comics history with before and after Luigi Mode”– Tito W. James, comicbook.com

(yes, he actually said this. Thank you, Tito)

Marcus is a videogame design student whose life is falling apart. On New Year's Eve 2020, help arrives from an unexpected, familiar quarter (please don't sue me, Nintendo). Pull quote declares it "the best comic of 2020", which is clearly a printing error, since Simon Hanselmann's Crisis Zone came out that year, but it's nice someone said that. Luigi Mode shoots past COVID in less than a panel and gets on with the important business of worrying about the third world war, so it's oddly more relevant to today than it was to the moment I wrote it in. This story has ended up being weirdly prescient in a lot of ways.

I keep telling people that I rattled these off quickly and they're by no means my best work but they keep telling me I'm wrong and I should shut up. So I will!