After their skirmish with the Manly Men Caravan, Baby, Belladonna, and Babette—along with their captive Cecil—head across the Nevada desert in search of a secret weapon that can end all men.
With just 1 issue left of this series, Alice Darrow and her team are continuing to make a beautiful comic. The writing and art really tie this entire book together. Read Full Review
The basic substance of the issue is a single encounter. Theres a great deal of patience in that kind of pacing. It means that Darrows world has an opportunity to play-out at slow speed in a way that could make for a delightfully long-run post-apocalyptic satire. ALl to often this sort of thing tries to define WAY too much too early on and it just feels like an excercise in world-building. Darrow does an excellent job of holding-back on the epxosition and simply allowing the story to reveal it in time. Read Full Review
Issue #2 (like last issue) captures the feel of watching a really great exploitation/grindhouse film from the 60's and 70's. Read Full Review
Same impression I had of #1, the writing is ok, some of the humor really does work for me, but some doesn't. The art is really really ugly, it's not my preference at all. Looks like something a 10 year old drew. One other thing that bugged me, the bicycle guy got shot in the shoulder, said it's just a flesh wound, and then was back to uninjured in every following panel as if the wound just disappeared. Also, so little happened that it didn't feel like a good use of my time reading it. The whole book could have been one or two pages. Group gets jumped by a guy on a bike, a brief fight ensues where their car gets blown up, group steals bike and keeps on keeping on. That's the entire book. A post-apocalyptic setting takes a story a lonmore