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    Todd Jordan
    Smut is good.

  • Humans, The #3



    Published by: Image Comics
    Released on: Jan. 7, 2015
    Writer: Keenan Marshall Keller
    Artist: Tom Neely
    Cover artist: Tom Neely
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    Click HERE for last issue's write-up.

    A new issue of The Humans? Image hasn't pulled the plug? Well bless them; bless them all (unless they do). Last issue Johnny came home and got all fucked up, but a different kind of fucked up than the mind-job Vietnam did on him. That shit there is permanent and he is continually haunted by what he went through and what he had to do to survive.

    Right now there are two stories running simultaneously and meshing into one another. Johnny's flashbacks are one story, and this time around we get some quality time with arriving in-country, getting shot down, and surviving in a P.O.W. camp. It's not a nice bunch of memories, be sure of that. These flashbacks keep coming and going, taking Johnny in-and-out of awareness and his current reality.

    Back in the present, Johnny's brother doesn't waste any time by letting Johnny acclimate back into the fold, and instead tunes him in on the next big thing he's cooking up: a big money-maker that takes a hallucinogen and mixes it with meth, giving the doper an insane high. Trials on the skins (what they call human beings) are still being conducted in the barn, but ape trials are around the corner. Working with other gangs, they can fuck over Abe, the ape they work for, and run their own racket. Johnny questions the thinking behind pissing off Abe, but he's a Human and he goes where they go. Especially on his bike “Moonbeam”.

    Perfect. That's what this comic book is, perfect. It's offensive to the sensitive and rewarding to the perverse. Neely's work on this title leaves little to the imagination, but that's good because the imagination is nice to be able to shut off now and then. His attention to detail is just enough to make the page impressive and sparse enough so things don't get lost amongst fine lines. As a treat to readers who spend more than the average amount of time to look at his artwork, he sticks in all kinds of little tidbits to enjoy. His style has an incredible 70s underground comix feel to it, and one page has a couple classic titles strewn about the floor as a little nod. It's actually part of a 2-page spread that has Johnny walking through the living room around passed out primates and dead soldiers, as he weaves in and out between memory and reality. It's a poster-worthy 2-pager, but pretty much every 2-pager in this title so far has been poster-worthy.

    We've been keeping track of the fact that an erect simian penis has been in the first two issues, but this one breaks the streak. A flaccid chimp pud can be seen, and some primate labia, but no ape boners. So instead we'll keep track of how many issues feature anthropoid genitalia. You know it interests you.






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