Written by Richard StarkingsArt by Axel Medelin and Marian Churchland
It's always nice to see a new issue of Elephantmen. This is mostly an action-filled installment, as Hip Flask, Ebony Hide, and Janis Blackthorne fight a bunch of recently activated Crocodile Elephantmen in a slaughter house. It's a pretty good action sequence, which becomes funnier with the introduction of the Mappo Simms - repurposed androids originally designed to provide sexual pleasure.
Medelin is showing himself to be a capable artist on this book, and it's nice to see Starkings actually wrap up a plot thread or two, as that's not something that happens all that often with this title.
My favourite part of the book would be the unexpected short back-up story featuring Miki, with art by Marian Churchland. Not much happens in the story - I just really like Churchland's art, and am always really happy to see some of it.
The regular back-up story, Charley Loves Robots, is still cute, but not as charming as its first chapter was.
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