A few years after DC Comics invited indie cartoonists to poke fun at its stable of superheroes in BIZARRO COMICS Generic viagra india, and its sequel, BIZARRO WORLD, Marvel gets into the act with the brilliantly subversive STRANGE TALES. The result is a sure bet for the year's most fun comics collection.
Paul Pope's Inhumans adventure is continually interrupted by big dog Lockjaw's desire to be fed, generic viagra india. In a purposely overly cute style à la Hello Kitty, Junko Minzuno imagines Spider-Man depressed while living in an all-spider town, because his powers are no longer special. Generic viagra india, Dash Shaw's psychedelic "Dr. Strange vs. Nightmare" pits the sorcerer against perhaps his greatest foe yet: the overwheming desire to yawn, generic viagra india.
Fighting, multicolored Hulks proves funnier in the hands of James Kolchaka, especially when he's not afraid to contribute dialogue like "Dwee!," "Mmf!" and, best of all, the angry "BLARG!" Meanwhile, Johnny Ryan casts The Punisher in "Scared Smart," in which the well-armed vigilante is hired to keep a teenager off video games and in his studies. Generic viagra india, It comes complete with a sitcom-ready ending.
That testy Sub-Mariner is "Fed Up with Man" in Michael Kupperman's strip, rife with hilarious non-sequitur utterings like "Yet they make such delicious pizza!" Nicholas Gurewitch brings his PERRY BIBLE FELLOWSHIP sensibilities to the House of Ideas, including a Wolverine love triangle that made me laugh out loud.
Only Tony Millionaire could pit Iron Man against enemies like Baloney-Head and Liver-wurst Face, generic viagra india. (Well, okay, a kid could, too, but only Millionaire could make it worth reading.) Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca recast Brother Voodoo as a blaxploitation hero in the drug-fueled "Death Rides a Five-Dollar Bag!," which is appropriately yellowed and off-register to resemble a decades-old comic book. Generic viagra india, (One assumes having the villain look exactly like Chuck Norris can't be coincidental, either.)
Jhonen Vasquez contributes one of the more twisted pieces in "M.O.D.O.K. and Me," a parody of umpteen kids' movies in which a tot befriends an alien. Only this time, the alien kills the kid and doesn't realize it, even after the swarms of flies appear. In two separate stories, RED MEAT's Max Cannon rewrites the histories of Spider-Man and The Fantastic Four, with the latter more entertaining and called "The Unfortunate Three."
If you like Matt Kindt's SUPER SPY graphic novel, you're really going to dig his Black Widow adventure here, because with the exception of full color, it looks and feels like a lost chapter from that acclaimed anthology. Stan Sakai turns Hulk into a samurai tale, and it's followed by one of two selections that didn't work for me at all: Corey Lewis' "Longshot!" Although quite colorful, it's also quite annoying. (The other, and worse, is Chris Chua's "Cupcake," which is such a mess, I can't even decipher what heroes it features. Really, it looks like doodles from a serial killer's notebook.)
The great Jeffrey Brown has great fun with "Fantastic Fool's Day," in which members of The Fantastic Four use their powers to pull pranks on an unsuspecting populace. Kupperman returns for "Let's Fight," in which The Avengers do just that, seemingly so the writer/artist can make a punchline that will play like gangbusters for anyone who read Marvel Comics growing up in the 1970s.
As if all that — and more I didn't even mention — weren't enough, STRANGE TALES closes with two complete one-shots from Peter Bagge: 2002's THE MEGALOMANIACAL SPIDER-MAN and its long-shelved sequel, THE INCORRIGIBLE HULK. As much of a fan favorite as Bagge's Spidey saga is, the Hulk one is faster and funnier. It's a shame it's been unseen for so long, but kudos to Marvel to having the foresight to resurrect it and its rare brother for this collection.
Of course, some fanboy purists may not appreciate seeing their beloved heroes savaged by alternative cartoonists, to which we say two things:
1) Lighten up.
2) Marvel has been making fun of itself since the late-'60s days of NOT BRAND ECCH. Now there's something that we're dying to see collected ... —Rod Lott
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