Jerks in Space Incorporated’s Latest Mini-Comic Science Edition
That is one awful title. Which is a shame, as it had that fantastic Marvel Universe homage cover, and the inside is pretty damned good too (mostly), but title needs an editor. The only real problem I had with the interior was the repeated uses of footnotes which, while informative and occasionally funny, crapped all over the flow of the book. Luckily John mostly quit using them about halfway through, leaving us with a regular old comic book about robots on the moon. Why? “…that’s all robots do. They attack us and break our stuff!” That right there is more than enough to sell me on some robot mayhem. From here there isn’t a thing complain about. One of the characters is a sequentialist (somebody who is convinced that they’re in a comic), but John did a great job keeping that from getting overbearing. The robot fights themselves were fantastic, up to and including some later stuff that I’m not going to talk about to avoid spoilers. There are also a few pages detailing the scientific basis for some of the weapons, which were close enough to seem plausible to me. There was also an entry for space serpents at the end, further mimicking the Marvel Universe idea, and it was perfectly done. Most of the dialogue is witty, which can come as a shock considering the material (robots on the moon!), but I’m somebody who is always happy to be pleasantly surprised by a comic. Now if he can only work on the titles he’ll be in pretty good shape. $1
