Bulletproof Chicken – One-Shot
King Bone Press
Writer: Jon Westoff
Pencilers: Bobgar Ornelas, Mat Nixon
Colorer: David Halvorson
Letterer: Jon Westoff
Reviewer: Derrick T. Crow
Summary: BP and his partner are on the case of the Cluck Twins. BP doesn’t let people do bad shit in his city and live to talk about it. He’s been doing this for years. It’s just another day for the cock with a glock. Today is different.
Review: We’ve seen them a dime a dozen in the world of entertainment, buddy cop action adventures. Where two guys with a lot to prove (mainly to one another) are put on a case that has them becoming the action stars every one of us dreams we were able to achieve. This story is a blend of that and a blend of Robocop. We meet BP and his partner, who is about to retire on their last case that has them shooting up the place and killing lizard thugs in order to save a girl that has a certain connection to BP. No questions asked, just go in and start mowing the trash down, it was honestly a lot of fun to see.
But it’s the moment we meet the girl, who in fact doesn’t get a lot to do in this comic that I realized just exactly what I was getting myself in for. There is a slight comedic draw to this comic, a lot of cliché spotting, but one thing it has in spades over most stories of this type is the graphic gore. It’s pretty intense. Through the colorful landscape and the absurdity of seeing Chickens vs. Lizards gun each other down is one helluva a dark, twisted emotional tale about two friends who over the span of 8 years become deadly enemies thanks to a betrayal over love.
The Cluck Twins are evil for the sake of being evil and aren’t much to talk about other than mentioning their quirky ways of finishing each other’s sentences, which actually becomes a bit of a weird plot point for this tale. These two are mostly here to act as catalysts for the real story. I sympathize with Bulletproof Chicken, who’s in this book a lot less than you’d expect for a book named after him and toting him up as the star of the show.
He is, but in a lot of ways his partner is as well, his partner is who we spend most of our time with as we get to know this man before a dark cloud looming over him is revealed beneath our very feet. All in all, this was a very fun one-off tale. Not sure if the creators have any plans for future installments based in this world, but what we got is just enough to play out like an action film while adding just a few enough sprinkles to make it something that at least feels wholly unique. It doesn’t take too long to read either, which is nice. At just over 30 pages of content, you really feel like you’re reading a comic and getting the full story rather than just less than a third of a comic that’s part one in a ridiculous 6-part adventure.
Finally, quickly, the art here is very nice to look at and so are the colors. The art is done by two different illustrators, one for the flashbacks and the other for present day (personally I prefer the flashback art done by Ornelas), and while it does show as you read there are two artists on the book, they don’t look so drastically different that the change pulls you out of the story. It didn’t for me, and that’s a very good thing. The art is also really cartoony, which for me is a style I really like for comics. It can generally fit the medium quite well. The colors are very vibrant as well, lately I’ve very much dug reading very colorful, very in your face with lots of bright tones. It’s also used as a good juxtaposition to the darkness and gore in the story, had really dark and brooding tones been used for this I feel it probably would have ended up being too much.
Final Score: 4 Cocks with a glock out of 5
Editor's Note: To find out how you can grab yourself a copy of Bulletproof Chicken, head over to King Bone Press!
King Bone Press
Writer: Jon Westoff
Pencilers: Bobgar Ornelas, Mat Nixon
Colorer: David Halvorson
Letterer: Jon Westoff
Reviewer: Derrick T. Crow
Summary: BP and his partner are on the case of the Cluck Twins. BP doesn’t let people do bad shit in his city and live to talk about it. He’s been doing this for years. It’s just another day for the cock with a glock. Today is different.
Review: We’ve seen them a dime a dozen in the world of entertainment, buddy cop action adventures. Where two guys with a lot to prove (mainly to one another) are put on a case that has them becoming the action stars every one of us dreams we were able to achieve. This story is a blend of that and a blend of Robocop. We meet BP and his partner, who is about to retire on their last case that has them shooting up the place and killing lizard thugs in order to save a girl that has a certain connection to BP. No questions asked, just go in and start mowing the trash down, it was honestly a lot of fun to see.
But it’s the moment we meet the girl, who in fact doesn’t get a lot to do in this comic that I realized just exactly what I was getting myself in for. There is a slight comedic draw to this comic, a lot of cliché spotting, but one thing it has in spades over most stories of this type is the graphic gore. It’s pretty intense. Through the colorful landscape and the absurdity of seeing Chickens vs. Lizards gun each other down is one helluva a dark, twisted emotional tale about two friends who over the span of 8 years become deadly enemies thanks to a betrayal over love.
The Cluck Twins are evil for the sake of being evil and aren’t much to talk about other than mentioning their quirky ways of finishing each other’s sentences, which actually becomes a bit of a weird plot point for this tale. These two are mostly here to act as catalysts for the real story. I sympathize with Bulletproof Chicken, who’s in this book a lot less than you’d expect for a book named after him and toting him up as the star of the show.
He is, but in a lot of ways his partner is as well, his partner is who we spend most of our time with as we get to know this man before a dark cloud looming over him is revealed beneath our very feet. All in all, this was a very fun one-off tale. Not sure if the creators have any plans for future installments based in this world, but what we got is just enough to play out like an action film while adding just a few enough sprinkles to make it something that at least feels wholly unique. It doesn’t take too long to read either, which is nice. At just over 30 pages of content, you really feel like you’re reading a comic and getting the full story rather than just less than a third of a comic that’s part one in a ridiculous 6-part adventure.
Finally, quickly, the art here is very nice to look at and so are the colors. The art is done by two different illustrators, one for the flashbacks and the other for present day (personally I prefer the flashback art done by Ornelas), and while it does show as you read there are two artists on the book, they don’t look so drastically different that the change pulls you out of the story. It didn’t for me, and that’s a very good thing. The art is also really cartoony, which for me is a style I really like for comics. It can generally fit the medium quite well. The colors are very vibrant as well, lately I’ve very much dug reading very colorful, very in your face with lots of bright tones. It’s also used as a good juxtaposition to the darkness and gore in the story, had really dark and brooding tones been used for this I feel it probably would have ended up being too much.
Final Score: 4 Cocks with a glock out of 5
Editor's Note: To find out how you can grab yourself a copy of Bulletproof Chicken, head over to King Bone Press!