07.30.06
PS238: To the Cafeteria… for Justice!: Thoughts
This is such a brilliantly funny comic book! The concept is great and the writing is fantastic. This book isn’t exactly a single cohesive story, but it does flow well. The story about Tyler’s weekend with The Revenant (a superhero sort of like Batman) is really fun to read. I love poor Tyler’s efforts to avoid anything potentially dangerous and his inability to understand many of the things that happen. The other story that I particularly loved was the shop class silly putty project story. Every element of the story was perfectly done and hysterically funny. Angela is a fun character in general.
I really love the art in this comic. The kids are really short compared to the adults, which works really well. It’s kind of cartoony in a good way. Expressions are exaggerated, which generally makes them funnier. The kids are really cute, which counterpoints nicely with the extreme property damage (a major point of the comic is that superpowered children have great potential for causing massive amounts of damage). It is visually appealing and fun to look at.
This really is a great comic. I would definitely recommend it to anyone. It’s fun and goofy and you grow way more attached to it than you ever would have expected to!