Interview: Mike Leone and Ian Daffern of Freelance Blues

Dino Caruso of Caruso comics took the time to speak with us for the site Comic Book Interviews:

"DINO: What’s the secret origin of Freelance Blues?

IAN: The secret origin of Freelance Blues is watching too much Buffy the Vampire Slayer and having too many crappy jobs. That’s a lot to do with it. But there’s a lot in there that is just the DNA of the stuff Mike and I like in common. The hard-scrabble underdog side of Peter Parker, really bizarre monsters like the kind Thor used to tap with his hammer, and a shared belief that bosses are not looking out for you. That’s about half of what we’re talking about at any given time, so it’s no wonderFLB evolved out of it.

As a comic–it’s always been to create something ambitious that we can tell any kind of story we want in. And I think we’ve done that."

http://comicbookinterviews.com/2012/07/interview-mike-leone-and-ian-daffern-of-freelance-blues/

Review: Freelance Blues issues 3 & 4

"The shining moments of FLB3 &4 are the brief-but-beautiful interactions Lance has with his sisters in phone conversations cut short, or looking at maps of jobs they have plotted out for him all across the continental U.S.A., bringing the relationship to such genuine and sweet focus that I can’t help but think “what a nice thing for them to do.” A monologue mid-issue 4 that wedges all of Bunkman’s job-hate into an just-ill-fitting-enough-to-be-charming Hamlet homage reminds us that the guy is not just family-oriented, and has enough personal layers that the fact that he keeps on these job quests is a stronger testament to his character than any narrator could have offered."

http://woodenrocketpress.com/2011/12/review-freelance-blues-issues-3-4/

Freelance Blues Reviewed by The Page of Reviews

"Freelance Blues is smart, allegorical and quite in tune with the fact that too few of us get paid for plying our natural talents, even if that skill set extends to killing monsters."

http://www.pageofreviews.com/2011/04/comic-book-review-freelance-blues/

Freelance Blues Reviewed by Wooden Rocket Press

"But the shining light to the story is not the monsters… its Lance. Bunkman (who, fittingly, is born on Labor Day) works any number of these jobs to support his twin sisters through high school, has fought for custody of them after the death of their parents, and teamed with his healthy curiosity and sharp, calculated dialogue, Daffern and Leone have carved a character right out of the likeability handbook, and it completely works in their favour."

http://woodenrocketpress.com/2011/03/review-freelance-blues-issues-1-2-and-the-2-dollar-sampler-issue-zero/

Shock Effect in Comic Book Resources: Robot 6

Shock Effect reviewed a year AFTER the Zuda competition: 

"The comic that I would have picked that month, though, was Shock Effect, by John Lang and Ian Daffern. That comic also started off with plenty of action, the but the creators took the time to put it into context. I knew right away that the girl I was looking at was a sympathetic character. I knew that society was breaking down in the face of an alien invasion. More details could be supplied later, but I had the tools I needed to follow the story."

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/06/unbound-why-is-this-dog-exploding/