HACIENDA Issue 1
by Dave Ortega
2022, 36pp, bw

The debut comic in a new series of comic short stories in the vein of "Love and Rockets," "Crickets," and "Eightball." The two stories in this issue deal with themes of history and memory as they relate to acts of collective forgetting. In "Spirit Search" a ghost hunting TV series tells one version of the history of an old hacienda, while what actually happened is told in tandem. Meanwhile, two video editors offer their jaded commentary. In "The Campesino Trilogy," two fans of Sando, an obscure film director, search the desert locale of his films to discover if rumors of a lost bunker might be true. The more passionate of the two friends gives in depth analysis of Sando's films along the way.