“If all this stuff [robbing 7-11s, etc.] had not happened and I’d not smoked crack and stole shit and come to prison I’d not have met my wife.” –Punk Pagan, #6 pg. 42. That has got to be one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. Then again, this has to be one of the more interesting zines I’ve ever read. At first, the entire thing being hand-written kind of irked me, but I soon realized it’s because the zinester in charge of Punk Pagan, Maniac Mike, is in prison. Wow. I know there are other zines out there done by prisoners, but I’ve never read them. Mike is doing time in Rhode Island and he’s also a pagan as well as an old school punk (he’s forty-eight). This makes Punk Pagan one of the more unique zines I’ve ever read, due to the author’s age, position in life, and interests. While the pagan-related items weren’t really something I was so interested in, it’s nice to have someone representing a distinctive voice in the zine scene. Some of his other rants about punk, politics, and everyday people were more up my alley, though, and I found them really cool to read. With every zine there’s always a few things I’m not really into (the list of South Park episodes he’s seen, for example) but on the whole, Punk Pagan seems to fill a niche that many others aren’t exactly covering. –Kurt Morris (Punk Pagan Publications, PO Box 282, Manville, RI 02838)