Years ago, I remember a 30 minute program where HBO or some other premium movie channel would regularly show an abridged version of Night of the Living Dead. Only the voices of the actors were replaced and a humorously dubbed version was overlapped in its place. Source Point Press' Sham Comics is a lot like that comedy special, only in comic book form!
Sham Comics selects a monthly theme. In the case of this issue, it's funny animals. Then Sham takes comic book stories in the public domain, replaces the dialogue, including the captions, and crafts a parody of the original tale. There are even vintage comic book ads that are given a comedic retool. In 2007, BOOM! Studios issued a trio of similar comics. The only difference is that this 2022 comic book uses quite a bit of four letter words, including the big bad one. There's numerous sexual references that would make a priest sweat. And potty humor. Okay. I take that last one back. I think the BOOM! books had those kinds of jokes as well.
Even though the material got rather blue and the language was R-rated, I really enjoyed this comic. It made me laugh; which was needed during a very dark time in my life. I liked Sham Comics so much, I very much would like to read some of the other books in this 6-issue series and the first volume produced in 2019.
Horror. Sci-fi. Crime. Romance. These are all themes that are skewered by Sham Comics and the team at Source Point Press. Kudos to the editors for having the insight to given credit to the original source materials from the late 40s and early 50s!
Worth Consuming!
Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.
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