Mercy Sparx: Under New Management #1

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• 8.0

  Comic Book Bin - Andy Frisk

  May 03, 2009

  After all this talk of tattoo art, brass knuckles with ASS engraved on them backward, and a wise cracking hottie devil chick, you might be thinking its a kiddie and/or adolescent throwaway mag, and in many ways it is (well, its not really for the kiddies), but its just too much fun, and the pop art angels and devils are just to well drawn to overlook. Josh Blaylock himself states in this issues column, have mercy that, if you like characters that curse too much, drink too much, have tattoos and fight lots of hot angel girls in skimpy outfits (and angel boys too), I ask you to plunk down a few bucks for more Mercy. Amid all these tattoos, beers and brawls there is a story that has the makings, early on at least, of shaping up to be pretty complex without loosing site of the humor that makes this book so fun. Blaylock also states, I do confess, though, that theres an actual over-arching epic story in there somewhere too, but I promise to keep the stuff you actually come back for-skin Read Full Review