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Sunset City (for active senior living) (a review)

Heather Veley
5 min readNov 27, 2020

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So, we all have a picture of what life will be when we’re all old and in retirement. Either we’re living alone but comfortably in our one-story house while watching the news and knitting or we spend our days playing mini-golf with the buddies we meet at the Jolly Pirate Donuts once a week. Nice, simple, relaxing life with no drama or uncomfortable events that will spoil the last few years we have on this Earth.

Welp, have I got bad news for you~!

Sunset City (for active senior living) is a comic that was publishing in 2005 by AIT/Planet Lar. It was written and illustrated by Rob Osborne who also did 1000 Steps to World Domination and The Nearly Infamous Zango. This is a pretty underground comic that I would not be surprised if only ten people know about it. (I wasn’t even surprised when I could only find the cover in Google images. Btw, this is the third comic I’ve had to take pictures of the physical book.)

I came across it one year on Free Comic Book Day. A hippie-dippie book shop, that happened to sell unknown/underground comics, had a table of overstock “worthless” comics they bought in bulk but couldn’t sell. They just handed everyone a…

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Heather Veley
Heather Veley

Written by Heather Veley

Writer, comic lover, and chronic coffee drinker.

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