by Scott Morse, with Paul PopeSomehow this series stayed completely below my radar until I saw the last issue. Luckily, I was able to get the whole set during a sale at my comics store, as this is one very cool comic.
Basically, Morse is playing around with pulpy strange science stories, with each issue telling a done-in-one story (except for the last issue, which manages to bring all the different issues together). We get characters like The Headlight, who leads a rebel group of Gearheads, the Shogunaut, G.I Gantic (a soldier who can grow to great heights), and Rusty Irons, a boxer who becomes a Plastic Man knock-off. My favourite issue is the third, which features the Projectionist, a man with an old reel-to-reel movie projector as a head.
Morse has structured each page with three horizontal panels, with narration written between them. He is definitely going for a wide-screen look, as his panels are as frenetic and bombastic as his writing. The art is a cross between Darwyn Cooke and Frank Espinosa, while the writing feels like it may have been written by Stan Lee after a three-day binge on cocaine and poppers.
Each issue also contains a one-page back-up story by Paul Pope, which is in itself very cool.
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