Sunset City

by Rob Osborne

Sunset City is a typical retirement community. Its residents enjoy golf and gossip and they all seem content to fritter away their golden years. Except Frank McDonald. A retired widower, he wrestles with the question: why am I here? Reading the newspaper, Frank keeps up on the minutia of the day; it provides a buzz to an otherwise humdrum life. One morning, Frank is overcome by a startling story, and he does something extraordinary: he takes life by the balls.

Genres: Graphic Novels

Paperback

First published November 8, 2005

Reviews

[Max Kalinin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite a nice little story there. Bottom line - once you go old, you don't become young, and old people don't take shit from nobody. What's the worst that can happen to them? they will die? go to prison? Probably they don't care too much about living anyways, and their living place is a sort of a prison anyways, so every bit of excitement that can get you through the day is a valid form of entertainment. That story shows just that, plus some more...

[H. Givens · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5. A simple story, well-paced, about a man in a slightly-too-sweet retirement community, dealing the violence around the neighborhood. Unexpectedly gruesome, but an effective story.