Written by Joe CaseyArt by Mike Huddleston
What fun this comic is. Butcher has been captured by Jihad Jones (great name), who is torturing him, finally being able to get his revenge for Butcher's part in the death of Jetboy, Jihad's former sidekick, and it is implied, life partner. This death is shown to us through a flashback that looks like a 90s comic.
Those scenes are not the most interesting in this book though. And while I like the parts with Arnie P. Willard, the cop that is chasing Butcher, even into his dreamstate, they aren't the best either.
The reason why you should read this comic is for the scene where Dick Cheney and Jay Leno get pulled in front of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to discuss their role in Butcher's destruction of the Crazy Keep. It's a very funny scene, with Leno attempting to alleviate the mood. Huddleston goes even more crazy on the art in this section than he has been all along. He draws the military brass as having faces that are puddles of colour, sometimes looking more like demons than men. Were Ralph Steadman to paint portraits in the Pentagon, they would look like this.
As always, the back matter is almost as good as the comic itself, as Casey writes about how he acquired comics throughout his childhood. I'm sure I'm not the only person who felt a wave or two of nostalgia reading this.
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