Writer: Alice Darrow
Illustrator: Alice Darrow
Colors: Hugo Blanc
Letters: Frank Cvetkovic
Cover: Alice Darrow
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Summary
Master Quest sends his loyal thug, Skippy, to ride his bicycle into the desert to find the three women that killed the artifact squad. Skippy finds the abandoned truck full of Virility Musk and dead bodies, but isn’t sure a murder took place there. He cycles in the direction that Baby,
Belladonna, Babbette, and Cecil are travelling in.
Back in the bug, Cecil describes Virility Musk to the girls right as Skippy catches up to them on his bike.
They are unable to stop Skippy, and he throws a grenade at their car and then starts shooting at them. Sheltering from the onslaught of bullets from Skippy and none left of their own, they resort to the only thing they have left – Virility Musk. After they use it to defeat Skippy, Baby, and Belladonna get into a fist fight. Then they all climb onto Skippy’s bicycle and cycle toward the artifact that will save them from death in the desert, slavehood, and the patriarchy.
Thoughts
Issue two is just as, if not more hilarious, than issue one. I laughed on page one as Skippy struggles to decide if anyone has been murdered.
The panel-to-panel storytelling is on point, and the pacing is as quick as the jokes are funny.
This issue is text-light; Darrow lets her artwork lead the reader through the story. The lively pacing is made possible by Darrow’s grasp on page composition and page-to-page storytelling. The camera angles Darrow chooses fill out the panels well.
I appreciate that the art doesn’t rely on overly graphic violence to propel the story forward.
The art in the fight scene between Baby and Belladonna flows particularly well.
Overall: 10/10
K.L.Murphy has BA in English, writes and reviews comics, and habitually pets cats. Comics are all unique and each one represents an enormous amount of thought and effort. Murphy reviews comics based on a variety of factors, but focuses on the artwork, storytelling, and pacing.
