'The Bones of Us' by J. Bradley and Adam Scott Mazer | Brian Alan Ellis
The Bones of Us is a heartbreak manual written by poet-man J. Bradley and illustrated by playwright/artist Adam Scott Mazer. Through striking words and images, it tells the all-too-common story of a failed marriage seen through the wine-fogged eyes of a broken boy named Paul.
Labor Day weekend, the failed winery long gone but you are a bottle with a message: goodbye. I try getting the kitchen sink bachelor party drunk. You spit yourself out the door. Two days later, your parents talk you back onto the ledge of your wedding ring.
When Paul shows his ex the bullet he’s made out of his wedding band, she passively tells him she likes the direction his art is going. Zinger! He retaliates by calling her a “knife show sheathed in Victoria’s Secret.”
