A pretty nice comic all around. Not a place to find a bunch of laugh-out-loud one-liners, but it's a fun premise in a quirky world, aided by a hyper-kinetic and totally exaggerated Mahfood-y art style. It's rare we get a stand-alone story that works so well, although the story itself doesn't have much do say beyond the gimmick of the title. Since it's a done-in-one, it's a pleasant enough snack with a healthy dollop of noir. Read Full Review

Honestly, the world is a better place for having this one-shot in it. Read Full Review

Young brings it all together nicely at the end, making a light but tight done-in-one that uses the backdrop of "Secret Wars" as an excuse to construct a story that likely never would have come to be otherwise. "Howard the Human" #1 is a strongly assembled comic that serves up all kinds of craziness but doesn't forget storytelling basics. Read Full Review

It's a fun twist to a familiar structure, and one writer Skottie Young plays up well with a series of in-gags and visual cues. Read Full Review

A comical take on a Raymond Chandler-esque plot - where Toomes is a literal vulture, the feline femme fatale is Black Cat, and Kingpin is a gorilla - it's a bit like reading Blacksad under the influence of heavy hallucinogens. Read Full Review

However, that's pretty much it for the book. A noir story features animal characters instead of humans. A joke here and there to remind us this is Howard the Human that's trapped in the anthropomorphic world, but not much else to push it forward. Don't get me wrong, this is still a great issue, but it can work just fine without the “Howard is a human” gimmick. The story ends on a great point too, so please be a one-shot please. Read Full Review

Howard The Human #1 is a stylish and witty book, but there's just no denying that the main draw of the character has been eradicated by its concept. Despite these misgivings, Mahfood and Stewart's wild, energetic artwork work with Young's tightly plotted script to make this a book worth a glance. Still, there's a reason he's supposed to be a duck. Read Full Review

Clearly a play on Howard the Duck, but when it comes down to it, this really has little to do with Howard the Duck; as a human, he is just some private investigator who doesn't endure the difficulties of being a duck and doesn't even feel like a fish out of water because everyone else is a different animal. Now, if everyone else were a duck, it might be more analogous, but I digress. The plot is semi-interesting, this comic's main flaw is that it's simply not funny, so why bother? The artwork is very stylized and works okay, but it's not great. This certainly doesn't compare to the Zdarsky's level of Howardness, and it seems to be a simple one-off story, so you won't miss out on anything by skipping this one.