From PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Starred Review. One of the oddest and most original works to surface in quite a while, this series drops an instantly disoriented reader smack dab into the seedy, violent streets of Wilkesborough, an urban hell just one step removed from a demilitarized zone. On any given day, all manner of havoc is wreaked by ninjas who are apparently a local minority group; mad scientists; renegade robots; time-traveling Spanish conquistadors led by Cortez himself; drug dealers; an Irish spaceman named CosMick; demons; a two-fisted Jesus Christ; a well-tailored Incan sun god; and a former super-bad dude from the 1970s known as the Afrodisiac. The only person who can deal with the freewheeling chaos is Jesse Sanchez, a homeless 12-year-old martial arts/skateboard prodigy known and feared as Street Angel. The world of the story offers little explanation for its strange happenings, expecting the reader to accept it at face value, and adjusting to its weirdness is just one small element of the freewheeling cornucopia within the pages. Replete with gravity-defying skateboard showboating, shattering kung fu throwdowns, intriguing characters and outrageous situations, this first volume of, hopefully, several is everything that many comics seem to have forgotten how to be: unapologetic fun. (July)
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10/06/05 Street Angel REVIEW
"Street Angel is both unassuming and ambitious, two qualities that seem mutually exclusive until you see how well they work together."
- Chris Tamarri
crisisboringchange.blogspot.com
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10/06/05 Street Angel REVIEW
"Street Angel gets 4 Stars from me."
- Mike Manley
Draw! blog
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09/26/05 STREET ANGEL interview
The Footnote's D.J.Kirkbride interviews Jim Rugg about Street Angel.
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09/21/05 Street Angel REVIEW
"...there’s a new book on my list of must-reads. It’s called Street Angel."
- Paul Milligan
stumblebumstudios.com
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09/19/05 Street Angel PRINTS
Jim Rugg will have prints for sale at SPX.

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09/13/05 Street Angel tpb REVIEW
"...Street Angel is a cheeky distillation of all that is cool about action comics."
- Corey Henson
newsarama.com
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09/13/05 Street Angel tpb REVIEW
"I... I think I'm in love. "
- djmcmonkey
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08/25/05 Street Angel tpb REVIEW
"The characterisation is spot on, from Jesse’s adolescent fearlessness to her moments of quiet sadness."
- Matthew Craig
thematthewcraig.com
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08/24/05 Street Angel tpb REVIEW
"With a sense of humor straight out of Adult Swim and a willingness to go anywhere with its story, Rugg and Maruca have created a new indie comic sensation."
- Evil Richard
yesbutnobutyes.com
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08/12/05 STREET ANGEL interview
Comiccritique.com's Adam White interviews Jim Rugg about Street Angel.
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08/12/05 Street Angel tpb REVIEW (below the Amazing Joy Buzzards review)
"The art's consistently solid and clear while the writing's spot on, but there is a bit of shock in some of the scarier, darker aspects of the adventure."
- D.J. Kirkbride
thefootnote.com
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07/27/05 Street Angel tpb REVIEW (below the MOME review)
"It's like dessert with no vegetables beforehand, though writers Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca treat the whole thing with an impressive straight-faced sincerity that utterly belies its comic-parody sensibility. "
- The Onion AV Club
theonion.com
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07/22/05 Street Angel tpb REVIEW
"Let me start by saying that Street Angel is easily the funniest comic book I've ever read."
- Kerry Garvin and James W. Powell
bookshelfcomics.com
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07/20/05 Street Angel tpb REVIEW
"I love how the creators are able to balance genres and styles so fluently."
- Kneel before Spatula Forum!
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07/08/05 Street Angel tpb REVIEW
"...the embrace of genre-soaked action-adventure as a vehicle for personal expresson through tone, theme and the values of craft that go into it. "
- Tom Spurgeon
comicsreporter.com
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07/08/05 Street Angel tpb REVIEW (scroll down to the very bottom of the page)
"...not many creators burst onto the scene with such a bold triumph like this."
- Chris Allen
comicbookgalaxy.com
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07/06/05 Street Angel tpb REVIEW
"Forget super heroes, forget pretentious indies and forget all of the other muck in the way and get Street Angel. "
- Mike Storniolo
silverbulletcomicbooks.com
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07/05/05 Street Angel tpb REVIEW
"At a time when the comics industry relies less and less on fresh material, Street Angel stands out as a beacon of hope among the mountains of tripe. "
- Adam White
comiccritique.com
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06/29/05 Street Angel tpb REVIEW
"All comic book readers, especially those that have gotten fed up with the titles they’ve been reading, should check this one out. "
- Christopher J. Shelton
bookshelfcomics.com
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06/29/05 Street Angel #1-5 REVIEW
"On the one hand you have Street Angel dealing with Ninjas and the Mafia, but on the other you have some lifelike interpretations of being a homeless kid still in school. "
- kilwag
skateandannoy.com
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04/29/05 Buy STREET ANGEL
SLG Publishing web store. Remember ask your local comic book store to order Street Angel. When they refuse, go straight to the source, Slave Labor Graphics webstore.
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04/29/05 Street Angel #5 REVIEW
"It’s wacky, it’s violent, it’s satirical, and it’s touching."
- Andrea Speed
comixtreme.com
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04/29/05 STREET ANGEL interview
Comic Book Resources' Arune Singh interviews Jim Rugg about Street Angel and the upcoming tradepaperback.
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04/29/05 Wizard Magazine SECRET STASH REVIEW
Wizard Magazine #164 features Street Angel in its indie-comic column, the Secret Stash.
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04/29/05 The G33K Eulogizes Street Angel
It's laid to rest! Maybe!
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04/29/05 Street Angel #5 (in French)
"8.5/10"
- Doud
ibulle.com
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02/14/05 Original Art FOR SALE
A couple of folks have inquired about original art sales. To meet this growing demand, an ORIGINAL ART link has been added to the site. The plan is to update this page regularly with a variety of Jim Rugg's artwork - including original pages, pinups, sketches, commisions, illustrations, etc. The original art page will serve as both a showcase of art that is available for purchase as well as a gallery of (hopefully) regularly updated artwork.
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