Brat Pack

Comic books oh dear comic books. How I love thee and how I have wasted many an afternoon deeply enthralled as a child and later as a teen. I have been a fan of Rick Veitch since his work on Swamp Thing and I Can't Get No. This is a one shot he published awhile back and I had the pleasure of finding it and re reading it recently. I found it tucked away in a dust shelf in a comic book shop on a journey. It was a wonderful find as before I had only read the first two issues this was truly a treat.

This has a lot to do with Watchmen  meaning it is a another attack on superheroes taking it to the No No Place .  This comic is about how evil corrupts youth with everything it can muster in the world.

To start with this is about the death of sidekicks in the first few pages. Now the heroes of Slumburg,PA need new toys to play with I mean sidekicks and they go to an elder a priest that has found them sidekicks before young flesh and minds eager to bend to the heroes of this city. Leading to a setting that can be very easily driven into horrific and hateful situation filled with drugs and blood. This comic is all about the death of innocent and ravels in this feel. 

King Rad, The Mink,Judge Jury,Moon Mistress

So to explain the horrible let us walk through each of our heroes. I shall start with my personal favorite his Wonder Woman and her name is Moon Mistress. She is a super feminist thinking that men are worth nothing if they do not physical want her and will go to any means to enjoy sex. She her goal is to turn her sidekick into a raging whore like she is and is aging and truly hates herself for it.  Totally a truly fucked up persona of a woman that just needs to be loved and boned into happiness.

King Rad totally high like a kite and he needs the adrenaline to keep himself moving through these troubled times. His stunts are getting a bit erratic and truly he is embraced by the love of Live Fast Love Hard and Die with your Mask On. The tag line of this series. Also he is a little bit of flash and green lantern through into the mix.

The Mink well where to start here okay a check list here okay Batman check. Gay CHECK CHECK. Pedophile big red check so big it gleams in the sun with it's rhinestones kinda of like a group of gay pride dancing to the ymca at fill tilt through the streets of San Fran. Now I'll put this out here now I love the gays and well they truly are a blast to be around. My best friend well not to sound cliche is and to be honest what bothers me most is the pedophile that he is into talking about how fruit can get to be too ripe etc. This does not say all gays are pedophiles just that all pedophiles are evil.

Jude Jury oh my god did I say batman last time this is batman part 2. SO YES TWO HORRIBLE EVIL BATMEN. This one is drive to great lengths to give out law and order torture totally in a sexual manner who enjoys punishing minorities the most. It's a pleasure to see the horrors he gets up to in this comic. I will say no more about this one sorry. The true reason for this is due to the fact this comic is only 5 issues and would be spoiled way too quickly. 

The setting is a city on the verge of greatness saved before by a great hero who has quit and left. Now all that can be seen is great man leaving a  city still in danger and heroes that only care of themselves. This is the horror of this story. You truly need to see this city to believe all horror all the time.

Moving off of this plot and on to the art. IT IS AMAZING and dirty and hateful I shall now post a few sample images of this beauty of a comic.

Now if you wish to Buy it from amazon that was the link in blue go ahead and click it you know ya wanna! I love the joy of honesty people who buy the art they enjoy and well I hope you will honor my requests. If you read any of this and would like to discuss it feel free to post a comment and we shall.