Lovebunny & Mr. Hell: A Day in the Love Life

    (Image, 2003)
™ and ©2002 Tim Seeley

The disparate duo of cute and cuddly super-heroine Lovebunny and her satanic sidekick Mr. Hell make the smooth transition from Devil’s Due Publishing to the better-known Image with A Day in the Love Life, a three-part Done in One that fans of The Tick and other super-hero humor comics will enjoy. Each segment is by a different creative team, but the story remains consistently funny, and the art is clear and attractive from beginning to end.

Like odd pairings of comedies past (The Odd Couple, Abbott and Costello, etc.), Lovebunny and Mr. Hell are funny because of their contrasting personas. Lovebunny is a scantly clad sweetie with a positive disposition and a hankering for Ben and Jerry’s, while Mr. Hell is a skull-faced demon with tentacles and an appetite for car parts, golf balls, and most anything else that will fit into his gaping maw. However, despite his fearsome presence, Mr. Hell is in many ways the “child” of the two. He’s mischievous and at times cantankerous (here he eats an Amish man’s chickens and is cranky from waking up too early), but he’s oddly sympathetic, especially when he turns on his sheepish grin and his look of utter helplessness.

— Brett Weiss
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February, 2003
Cover Price: $2.95
3 copies available from $0.99 		Tim Seeley, Josh Blaylock, Brendan HayJosh Blaylock, Tim Seeley, Mike Norton