the comic is really a love letter to local fan culture, so it's interesting to see the extent it's "researched" and is pretty much an entirely valid representation of the hardcore fan culture here. But yeah, like you said the story is pretty slow-paced in order to fit all the detail in and I don't like the new artist at all.

But hey, I'm like the last guy in Portland that still loves Kalif Alhassan so his personal chant (which apparently cropped up after I left the Timbers Army section, so I didn't really even know about it) getting play in the pages is enough to keep me happy.

Also, so far it's been nothing but adoring about the Timbers Army, but I'm also aware that Rucka knows about some of the dark side shit that goes on within the group. I'm holding out hope some of that will pop up eventually.