"You get where you wonder how life got so whipless…" Jett Cropper's best friend dies from a bad roast laced with chicory. He uproots the whole town to find the roaster behind this mess, this Emerald City Tamper, no matter the cost. As a novel of words and pictures, Cold Brewed tells a classic film noir story in a prohibition-era world where coffee is currency. Cold Brewed uses silent film techniques, but favors classy black and white photographs over pencil sketches—a grittier grandson of the narrative form in Selznick's books like "The Invention of Hugo Cabret." Shot in and around Joplin, Missouri, Cold Brewed testifies to the art revival happening in our formerly tornado-devastated town. This is the free web scroller version: — Episode guide: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...