By Jamie Smart
Pub: SLG
I've put a few trade paperback reviews up so far and to be honest they're all been far too serious. In order to buck the trend I thought I'd review Bear.
The comic follows the misadventures of the titular Bear, a talking cuddly toy bear, belonging to Karl, a washed up twenty something. Karl and Bear share their house with Looshkin, Karl's psychopathic cat, and Bear's nemesis.
Filled with violence, swearing, blood, guts, and a surprise appearance by a rock star, Bear is wonderfully off the wall and gloriously inappropriate and funny as hell.
The book explores such issues as the immortality of toys, the danger of the dark arts, black holes, cloning and arming cats with flame-throwers.
What? I said at the start that this wasn't going to be highbrow. One strip uses only swear words for Heaven's sake. We also get to see Bear in the trenches of WWI, in Jane Austin (not like that), and as a crazy cockney gangster (called Knockers).
As may be coming across Bear's style of humour falls somewhere between the Bunny Suicides and Shooting Stars (back in the day).
I'd urge you to keep an eye out for the trade paperbacks as they contain lots of extra strips, but should they prove elusive the meat of the Bear strips can be found on Jamie's website.
Reviews about proper actual books soon. Promise.
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