Reviewed by Brady Steele. God Hates Astronauts #7 keeps the crazy sauce pouring all over this issue. Just to keep things fresh, creator / mad genius Ryan Browne has a special guest star narrate this month: real-person and comic book writer Charles Soule! There’s also plenty of explosions, swearing and fighting animal men here too.
WRITTEN BY: Ryan Browne
ART BY: Ryan Browne
PUBLISHER: Image Comics
PRICE: $3.50
RELEASE: 1 April 2015
It almost doesn’t matter what happened before as this issue and many of the previous ones. This chapter has so much out-of-nowhere oddball antics that it feels like watching an out-of-control demolition derby with superhero tropes instead of cars. Creator Ryan Browne throws so many things at reader’s month in and month out that it’s a lot to take in. The flashbacks keep the wacky factor high this month as samurai swine led by French-Japanese rice farmer despots. If that sounds oddball, and you like what you see, you are in the right place.
The present day action is just as insane. Cyborg giraffes, game-console-gods and pissed off momma-heroes fill out the zany for this month’s installment. Starrior’s daughter is taken by force to save the galaxy. That always sounds good when it’s not YOUR daughter being sacrificed, right? Browne knows how to mix oh so many things together here that it almost makes sense in its scattershot approach to storytelling. Reading this book feels like you’re watching a child’s dreams who fell asleep watching some crazy 1980s science fiction flick after eating too much ice cream and reading comic books and playing video games all night. That IS a compliment.
Next month looks like time travel will be involved. Here’s hoping it blends this wacky world even more than it already has been the last seven issues. This series is a truly fresh shot of hot sauce in the eyes in the comic book world. The random candy ads and backup story are just more helpings of Browne’s unchecked imagination. I hope readers are brave enough to give God Hates Astronauts a chance. Even without knowing everything that’s going on, this book is an entertaining read so give it a look-see.
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