Get ready for a middle-American miasma of drinking, dreams, dead-ends, despondency, dull despair and death – along with plenty of smoking (and a little bit of gambling).   Andy Wieland’s latest, Wheels Comics is composed of a dozen or so pieces filling 36, black & white, magazine-size  pages of comics (+ 2 more on the inside covers, with yellow!).  These stories are not, however, all doom and gloom.  They are leavened with a wry gallows humor, and, most importantly, powered by formally strong artwork that shares attributes with Tim Lane’s Happy Hour in America and, within the series of interludes that are interspersed throughout the book, there is a solid – and rarely seen, but very welcome  – consanguinity with the work of John Hankiewicz.