A comiXologist recommends…
Curse Words #1 by Charles Soule and Ryan Browne
Magic is quite something. I’m not talking about the Houdini kind of stuff. Real magic. The kind of stuff only witches and wizards can create. The stuff of Dungeons and Dragons. It’s a heck of a lot of fun because it is, for the most part, endless – especially in story telling. For Curse Words #1, Charles Soule (of She Hulk, Letter 44, and many others) and Ryan Browne (God Hates Astronauts), magic is potent, powerful, explosive, and so much more.
In this brand new series, we meet a man named Wizord, a wizard from another world. He’s landed on Earth and had decided to have some fun (I think) with his seemingly endless magic. But that’s not the end of it.
This issue is a testament to Ryan Browne’s ability to draw almost anything with precision–whether it’s New York City, an entire baseball stadium, a koala, or a man with a very impressive beard. In his previous Image book, God Hates Astronauts, it was always the amount of insane detail Browne put into the book that kept me reading (his Crab-headed humanoid aliens were always pristine) and with Curse Words, this has not changed. With colorists Jordan Boyd and Michael Parkinson at his side, the art of this book is almost enough of a sell to keep me reading.
Lucky for us, Charles Soule not only knows how to write a compelling story, but in one issue, he manages to establish a rich world full of a thousand and one questions. Who Wizord really is, why he came to Earth, and his scary, mysterious Hole World origins kept me turning pages as quickly as possible. The pacing in this book is fast, but every page is littered with pieces of information that pass by almost too quickly to ponder as the story progresses.
If you’re looking to dive into what will assuredly be a fun, magic-riddled, masterfully drawn and colored comic, look no further than Curse Words #1.
Mike Rapin is a Queens-dwelling web developer with far too many X-Men comics in his apartment. He hosts the I Read Comic Books podcast where he rattles on about how you should be reading Jeff Lemire and Greg Smallwood’s Moon Knight.
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The ComiXologist co-host Tia Vasiliou (aka “Lou”) recommends Curse Words #1 for @themarysue this month!
Have you ever felt that your life has no meaning? Or maybe just that your talents and self-actualization are being co-opted by The Man, against your own best interests? Wouldn’t it be really freaking awesome if your best friend was a talking koala named Margaret? If you answered “yes,” (and let’s be honest, who wouldn’t?) then I have the comic for you…
The 10th day of our #12DaysofFreeComics brings you something bizarre! It’s ryanbrowneart’s God Hates Astronauts #1
A NASA funded group of arrogant “super people” must stop a rash of farmers that have been using rocket-powered silos to launch themselves into outer space! As these Astro-Farmers fire themselves all over the galaxy, NASA must utilize their every resource (A guy with a ghost-cow head, a bunch of magic bears, and a Chicago cop with robot arms) to avoid an intergalactic incident!
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GOD HATES ASTRONAUTS follows the story of a group of incompetent, small-minded, super powered narcissists called “The Power Persons Five” who are hired by NASA to stop all farmers from launching themselves into space in homemade rocket ships. Unfortunately for NASA, this goal is scarcely even addressed and the book focuses more on extramarital affairs, bank-robbing owls, big gross swollen heads, ghost cow heads, olde tyme boxers, tigers eating cheeseburgers in the Crab Nebula, buffalo judges and tons of aggressive swearing. Not so much a superhero book as it is a parody of basically everything and a celebration of weird that is jam-packed with references to RoboCop and Die Hard.
