Behind a fun but hastily inked cover, lies an intro page promising More Tales of Broads & Bars. What we actually get is two strips of weirdo creatures wandering around.
In Then The Good Comes we are introduced to Ripper The Fuckin' Elephant, whose friend Particle Man gives him a machine that creates perfect comic book's by sucking the images out of your brain. This potentially interesting story is marred, not only by fairly feeble artwork, but by the fact the reader is given no information on who or what these characters are. I kept having to check the cover to make sure I was reading issue 1. I think Ripper is supposed to be artist/ writer Jon Chandler, but who knows.
This is surrealism for its own sake, and tho' the occasional panel has potential, mostly it's weak and pointless.
The second strip Devil Watch is better; altho' it's really only two devils telling each other a joke, and taking four pages to do it, It does at least show some semblance of drawing skill. Actually I noticed reference to a comic called 'Devil Watch' in the first story, so maybe these are characters and in-jokes Jon has been working on for some time, and knows all about. But we don't, nor are we given any reason to be interested. I don't know why anyone other than the artist's friends would want this. All in all, much too self-indulgent for its own good.
Pete Doreé