REVIEWS
Fans of THE GOON will get a kick out of this story with its 50’s tough guy sensibilities schmelded with the occult. The artwork is pretty damn cool. At times it reminded me of Mike Judge’s artwork from KING OF THE HILL, but that’s no jibe at the artwork. The shaky lines give the story a unique quality that one doesn’t often see in comics. It’s a quick read (just two issues have been released so far), so it’ll be quick for you to catch up on. Looks like new pages drop every Thursday. HOW TO BE BULLETPROOF is one of those original concepts that push the medium of comics while lauding different genres of the past. It’s funny at times and thrilling to see these two interesting characters–one guided by rage, the other’s judgment clouded by age–as they cut a path of revenge. Check out HOW TO BE BULLETPROOF if you’re interested in something different than what you normally see on the shelves.
Ambush Bug, Ain’t It Cool News
This comic has a great feel from the start — an atmosphere that permeates from the establishing panels of the first installment right through to the current week’s episode. It has grit — the same kind of grit that pumped in the blood of those old pulp detective stories; the big heart and the situation turned sour. It has a great twist on the whole revenge angle which I won’t dish up here for fear of spoiling it for you, but that you can read it and not skip a beat says something for the storytelling. The characters here leap from the page as fully-formed, rounded beings; not a single one of them reading as ciphers for the purposes of moving the story along. The tale has that sense of inevitability — the trajectory of the doomed that always made noir so watchable. It also reminds me in parts of Bukowski. It drinks hard, lives hard, pulls no punches and makes no apologies, and what more can you ask from a story?
