Writer/Artist: Jonnie Allan
Publisher: a.k.a. Comics
Cover Price: $2.95
It’s not the first time we’ve seen a stick with a gun pull up to a bar on a cool-looking, adult-sized Big Wheel, goes into a bar directly connected to Hades by a portal in the bathroom, meets an evil girl named Lucy Furr, twice as attractive as any stick-figured supermodel, and uses his disk gun to fight off a slimy-monster-from-one-of-Lovecraft’s-flu-hallucinations while trying to attain the white throne of power. Like I said, it’s not the first time we’ve seen that. Go ahead and call me a liar.
After Lucy Furr tricks Stykman into recovering an “object of great importance” (make quotation marks with your fingers), he is subjected to all manner of embarrassments, including playing chew-toy for a giant, three-headed poodle named Cerberus and plunging. All with the least amount of help from his tiny, green friend from outer space.
Filled with Jonnie’s unique sense of humor and befitting artwork, Stykman is shaping up to be a funny book in every sense of the word. With the ever-present green-man from outer space Al, he fights crime with an impressive array of oddball weapons and vehicles. Reminiscent of classics like Ambush Bug, The Tick, and The Heckler, Stykman stays entirely unique and entirely entertaining.
Stykman fantastically generates fits of ecstatic laughter. Jonnie has put together a hilarious story with Stykman, and the laughs just keep on coming. Readers will be thankful they let him keep his crayons, poster-board, and indelible markers during his incarceration from “sanity of humanity” (make the air quotes again with your fingers), so he could share with us a bit of the insanity inside his mind.
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