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I believe the title of the comic is called Bounty
Hunter. I can't say for sure because there is a
wolf in front of the Bounty part, making it only
possible to guess at what it says. The wolf on the
cover says "Surrender to us that battle suit..."
and somebody else says "... or die!!" there is a
very amateurishly drawn black hero running at you
with a battle suit on.
On the inside cover we have ads for Smash Comics
and ad space for sale. The story starts in the
middle of something that you have to read issue #0
to understand. All you know is a villain has a
woman hostage and he ain't letting her go like he
promised. It's difficult to make out the rest of
the story as it's clear the art was scanned into
and printed by a home computer. As a result a lot
of the lettering is small and blurry. The entire
comic was also poorly printed as letters and art
are cut off on both sides all through the comic.
The dialogue is really messed up on some pages.
Such as "I do have anything to gain from all
this... None!" and "Since we are together will one
or tell me who arranged this charade?" In short
they really need to proofread their work. It'
appears they did this "The Marvel Way" as the text
doesn't always fit into the word balloons and go
outside of them in parts. There is also missing
punctuation, making reading the dialogue even more
confusing. The story follows the action hero
formula closely, a strong guy hero versus a big
brain villain. Big brain assembles a group of top
of their field scientists and uses his powers to
bully them to do his bidding. Along the way the
big brain found a very powerful child and has
corrupted her to protect him. While the story
could have probably been done in one issue with
better use of space, it's not. This is a 6 issue
mini series.
The art, as I said before, is amateurish. The figure
drawing is crude and basic. There are no
backgrounds anywhere. Parts of it are left
uncoloured and unfinished. Everything looks
static, no sense of movement. Due to the bad
printing the art is very fuzzy on some pages.
There are parts where the panel is turned
sideways, making you turn the entire comic around
to read it. This might work if you are Chris Ware
and are doing an entire comic using experimental
layouts. But this is a superhero comic and a badly
produced one at that, so it looks like another
amateurish flaw. Especially when some are turned
clockwise and others counter clockwise.
On the back cover is a statement from Kiss Me
Comix about not playing by the rules and being
original. Truth be told, I really doubt they made
this comic because it was original. They did it
because it was the easiest way they could. No
dealing with printers and getting stuck with
unsold stuff.
I've reviewed some really bad comics before but
this one took the cake. It is books like this that
give "indy" a bad name. 0 out of 5 stars.
Let's see if the next one is any better.
Serenade #4
Story and art by Barbara Jenkins
$3.00 US/CAN
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