Honor Brigade

(Spinner Rack, 2005–2008)
™ and © 2005 Spinner Rack Comics

As security guard and ex-cop Joe Irvin dozes at his bank of monitors, something alerts him just as one of the buildings under his watch explodes. The bouncing image of a bizarrely costumed man on a pogo stick on the additional screens adds to his quickly unraveling evening. The man who calls himself Toy Boy, and is dressed in a form-fitting clown costume complete with jingle bells on his hat à la Harley Quinn, appears at the main entrance. An acid quickly dissolves the glass door but as he steps through Irvin shoots him. This only delays him for a moment however as Toy Boy recovers, kicks Irvin in the jaw and gives him a message for the company’s owner: “It’s playtime.”

Writer Tom Stillwell is an unabashed fan of the kind of super-heroes who aspire to be role models. His disdain for the grim and gritty trend is obvious in this title. He wants this book to be the kind of comic that his young daughter could enjoy on the same level as an adult. The art by Bradley Bowers is clean and uncluttered and has a pleasing realistic and uncomplicated style.

— George Haberberger

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