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WHATEVER! #1 & 2
by Michael Bregman and Sally-Anne Hickman
(£2.00 from Cheese Comics / 36 Finchley Way / London N3 1AH / ENGLAND. Web:
www.cheesecomics.com)
Review by Mark Campos
Well, here's one that didn't do it for me. Beatrix is a riot-tot with a Baby Sue-like facility for inventive swears. She has a fantasy in which she mobilizes tides of smelly hippies and the Powerpuff Girls to overwhelm the US Military, allowing Saddam Hussein to nuke the world.
That's the first issue. The second contains a long sequence in which Beatrix's hooker mother is humilitated and beaten by a trick, as B. listens from the next room. What's the point? Is this social satire, dark black humor, or just ugly for ugly's sake? Clueless hippie peace activists as a target for satiric barbs went out of fashion in the late '80s, and who satirizes beaten hookers? There's no humor here. I must conclude that ugly is the purpose of these tales. The drab story is complemented by the leperous art. Unless you like feeling grim after reading a comic, there is no fun for you here.
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