Odd Jobs #1
Ah, the abbreviated last name. Always fun for a website like mine that at least sort of tries to keep things in alphabetical order. This is the first book of Eric’s that I’ve seen (unless he put out other stuff with his actual last name attached), but I highly doubt that it’s his first book. Either that or he was born with an innate knowledge of making comics. This series (and it better be a series after that ending) is about Chickenbot needing to find some work and heading out to the local temp agency. He gets to pick from a list, ends up with with the job of Werewolf Hunter, and sets out to complete his task. Once in the town he asks around about the beast and finds out that it has appeared 20 times and only killed 3 people and that the townspeople are utterly helpless on their own, unable even to clean up the dead bodies until outside help arrives. Disgusted, he attempts to back out of the job, but due to his terms of employment he isn’t allowed to get another job until this one is completed, so off he goes to confront the monster. No sense spoiling the rest of it, but I will say that most of the fight, if such a thing is going to occur, is going to happen in the next issue. The fun in this issue was getting to it, as Chickenbot is consistently entertaining, even if he does seem to have stolen his eyeballs from a character in the Neil Jam universe. It’s worth a look, although I’ll hold off going all nutzo about it until I see future issues. No price tag, but with a color cover I’ll go with $2.50 for no good reason.
