Butcher Baker The Righteous Maker

[mrosa]

I can't believe no one's posted anything form this series yet! Joe Casey and Mike Huddleston's series is a send up of tough-guy, macho superheroes, full of sex, violence and profanity, and it's a gloriously twisted and hilarious read. If you long for superhero decadence at its best, why aren't you reading this series?



In the first issue, Dick Cheney and Jay Leno must convince retired superhero Butcher Baker to blow up The Crazy Keep, the special prison containing all his enemies. The taxpayers', we're told, are finally tired of wasting money on them. But when you give a mission to Butcher Baker, you can never predict the horrors you'll unleash.









Of course he accepts the mission, because he's fucking bored; people die, shit blows up, criminals escape and swear revenge... it's a fine ride.

Comments

[mrstatham]

See, I would totally buy this, but I'm largely a trade buyer out of considerations for shelf space, price and the like, so it's been really disappointing that I haven't seen one solicited yet, because I generally love Casey, and I love Huddlestone's work on Mnemovore.

[halloweenjack]

So, basically, an American version of Morrison and Millar's Big Dave.

OK.

[icon_uk]

My very thought

[selke]

For some reason, this makes me want to start belting out "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen.

[greenmask]

Well, it's real nice art. Great line work, great colouring.

Doesn't feel like send-up so much as a bird-flip, to be honest, but maybe my and it's points of view just don't jibe. With both this and Phoebe Zeit-Geist a while back I can't fully appreciate whatever it's saying about lazy current tropes because it's using objectified female bodies to do it. It's nice to see dicks and pubes andacknowledgement that we actually have genitals. But it feels like being used by an enemy rather than a friend. It feels like body appropriation. All the same-physique doesn't help.

:/

[ensiform]

"All the same-physique doesn't help."

I was thinking exactly the same thing. So tired of exact cookie-cutter women bodies in comics. Yes, I get it, they should all be hot, it's a trope of the genre, so fine; but where's the tall women, the smaller boobs, the larger boobs, the flat butt, the big butt? Afro, braids, short, pale, freckles, dark skin, snub nose, long nose, long legs, squat hips? No variation of any kind. It just strikes me as even more juvenile than the juvenile things it's meant to be sending up, because this pretends it knows better.

[pallas_athena]

Me three.

[thatnickguy]

Sorry, this lost me right at your opening description/explanation.

Dick Cheney I get but...why Jay Leno? That's the most random, oddball pair that just makes no sense at all to me.

[mrosa]

I think Casey's point is that their both self-serving spienmeisters whose ability at convicing people they're not major pricks is useful in getting BB to work for them again... I think I understand where Casey is coming from but a) Cheney doesn't really convince anyone he's not an asshole, and b) Leno isn't a prick on his level, he just had a bad tussle with Conan O'Brien.

Still I love Leno's face when he meets BB.

[lucky_gamble]

Cool art but the story and dialogue leave me feeling cold. I've seen this type of story done before. Not sure where but eh whose keeping track.

[espanolbot]

Got an urge to post some Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker. If only because it might be one of the best things that Ennis has written in years.

GARTH ENNIS PRESENTS:

[captainbellman]

"After Watchmen: The Comedian", an alternate-timeline series that asks, "What if Alan Moore's flag-draped mad hedonist was revived for the modern age?".