The Bizzare Expeditions of Makaveli Hammertoe
Damn you Pat McNutt, you’ve forced me to use a spelling error on purpose! OK, so “bizarre” may be a hard word to spell, but there is something called dictionary.com, you know. A minor thing, made less important by the fact that the inside of the book is wonderful. It’s about half comic and half character sketches, and if you look at that sample you can see why. That second panel alone must have taken him about a week to draw. This seems to be projected as a series in which Makaveli wanders around in space, having adventures and reporting back to his boss. In this episode Makaveli is looking for organic material in space but is having trouble finding a place to land. When he does finally land, things don’t go smoothly, of course, or why would you have a comic? There’s an excellent twist ending, the art is as gorgeous as can be, and the writing doesn’t do a thing to hurt the whole package. A little more focus and maybe a long term plan and this series could be something great. $3
