Your Humble Blogger’s local library has a surprisingly good collection of graphic novels and such. Although the cover of Doug TenNapel’s Creature Tech (Marietta: Top Shelf 2002) wasn’t all that enticing, a quick flip through the pages showed a pretty agreeable style, and a lot of monsters. It turns out that there are only a few monsters (well, maybe a dozen) but they change shape (and bodies) enough to keep things interesting.
There’s an alien who learns kung fu from chop-socky movies, the Shroud of Turin (not that fake one), a surprisingly heavy religious message, and the sort of ‘snappy’ action-adventure movie dialogue that is supposed to be funny, but is only actually funny as a parody of itself. Which I think is what’s going on here. You know, the joke itself isn’t funny, but what’s funny is that the hero (or the villain) bothers making a joke in the middle of a fight, and that the stupid joke is the best he can come up with?
Oh, well.
It’s a pretty darned entertaining book, although clearly not as good as Hench is going to be.
Redintegro Iraq,
-Vardibidian.