Right now, I really dislike Mark Mosedale, Si Smith,Top Shelf Productions, and the person who sent me the reader’s copy of Gigs by Smosedale and illustrated by Smith. I dislike you because you made me feel all the emotions at once. You made me unable to put my reader copy down. You made me want to finish before it comes out mid-June 2026 so I can get it on release day, stand at the front doors and tell customers, “You ain’t leaving until you buy a copy!” You made me love, hate, scream, cry, want to join a mosh pit and knock some heads around. 
But, DANG! (only I didn’t say dang), I needed this book. You need the “right frame of mind,” and due to current events, this is perfect. The connecting stories smacked me upside the head and I said, “Thank you. I would like some more.” Amazingly emotional, beautifully created and have a box or ten of tissues ready as you will laugh, cry, get ticked off, and so much more.
There are several interconnecting stories of the people of a not so far off future that are just working the grind. They go from “gig to gigs” (job to job) just to survive at a very basic level. The world has gone to crap in a handbasket and the Powers That Be charge you for that, too. This is a piece of work in all the good, bad, ugly and in between ways. The illustrations are fanatic. They are crowded, beautiful, ugly, sensual, seductive and horrific. You will wonder, hope, dream and you will take a journey from story one to the end, but you’ll be at the beginning again.
Mature themes, language, concepts, but worth it. Not for the under 14 crowd and even then it might not be for them. Know yourself, your reader and know you will have an adventure. Whether it is a good one or not, is up to you dear reader.
I just talked about my feelings about this graphic novel, not the story itself. But ust read, okay? I think you won’t regret it. “The Next Right Thing” is not just a line in the book, but a command for the next thing you must do.
