AA Squad #1

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• 8.0

  Graphic Policy - Alex K Cossa

  Feb 14, 2017

  If you'd like to purchase a digital or print version then you can do sohere. Read Full Review

• 6.0

  Comic Bastards - Ben Boruff

  Apr 04, 2017

  In a 2016 video essay, YouTuber and pop culture critic Lindsay Ellis accused Disney's Hercules of having a "tone problem." Ellis explained that the film "is a comedy"arguably more than any other Disney movie that came out that decade"at least as far as the marketing goes. That wouldn't be a problem or even noteworthy except that this has some of the darkest stuff in all of Disneydom." AA Squad suffers from a similar problem. The artwork and some of the dialogue are typical of more lighthearted narratives, but some of AA Squad's panels are surprisingly somber. In one panel, a tiny robot shifts into a tiny robot poodle, but a following page features a melancholic inner monologue ("I wasn't restoring the timeline. I was scrubbing its toilet.") The first issue of AA Squad, though entertaining and thoughtful, is jumbled, but I am still excited to see how the second issue responds to the first issue's cliffhanger. Read Full Review