GET IN THE ZONE! THE I.F.S. ZONE, WHERE DUDES IN NECKTIES WATCH BIG MUSCULAR DUDES KICK OTHER BIG MUSCULAR DUDES IN THE FACE! THE ZONE!!!

(pardon the water damage on the cover zone)


Since this is issue #4, we are dropped in medias res at the exciting juncture where the editor/publisher has decided to drop the cover price next issue to 49 cents, in apparent response to the "glut of black and white junk on the market", which is an... interesting gambit, to say the least. I'm not sure if it helped improve their circulation, but if they'd published it at that price point in a smaller size they might have been able to get sold in grocery stores alongside the little astrology and biorhythm booklets they used to use for impulse purchases at the checkout line. Also, if they'd changed the cover & interior contents to actually be about astrology or biorhythm, that might've helped.


Elsewhere on the inside front cover, we learn IFS stands for "International Fallout Shelter", and also that there is apparently someone's painting on the splash page... sounds unusual for a black and white superhero book, can't wait to see this artwork!


Uhh but the splash page is your typical black and white indie comic art with a lot of screentone and presstype and muscle guys in spandex...? Where's the painting...?


ummmm oh OK.


Anyway, as we join a muscle-guy punch-up in the aforementioned in medias res, we find mask guy promising to make his fists do the talking, and his opponent very much continuing to talk with his mouth.


This comic also has an even higher number of thought balloons than usual for superheroes, these people think A LOT, and I'm not sure we need to know everything that goes through their pretty little heads.


I too like to punch people in the face while telling them they're hurting themselves. It's also fun to grab their arm and use their own hand to hit themselves over and over, because I'm an 8 year old with a little brother.


Here's another piece of artwork, I call this one "Tiny Man in Giant Room"


Um ohyeah there's also other people lying around on the floor, somewhere.


Dude literally knocked the guy's teeth out; gotta say, that's more verisimilitude than I'd expect from one of these comics.


Not just a little cartoon joke like Mr. Weatherbee's toupee flying off his head when he's surprised, he really lost his teeth. I mean they were obviously false teeth but still.

Not too toothless to thought balloon a lot though!


Meanwhile, out in a street that also somehow looks like it's in a big room, a weird looking guy is also thought ballooning.


Sooo he blew up the cab of a truck, the cargo load of which is filled with radioactive materials? I'm beginning to see why he's such a weird-looking guy.


"This will show everyone I'm smart" he says, holding a radioactive container in his bare hand.


Now THIS mutant has the right idea- just sleep through this whole comic!


Anyway, back indoors in the big room, a guy I don't know is surprised to find the last guy on the floor is also a guy I don't know! Who are they? Find out next issue! Which I don't have.


There's actually 3 unrelated stories in this issue, which I guess all take place in THE ZONE!!!!, like this one drawn by someone who doesn't own the publishing company and consequently looks okay.


Wonder why more people engaged in these sorts of battles don't use the old "reflect-their-eyebeam-back-with-a-mirror" trick?


This entire 5 page story is a fight that ends with the antagonist turning back into a nerd who hates drugs, so I'm not sure who to root for here.


The final story, with yet another art team, seems to have been written by a chat AI with the prompt "Rorschach from Watchmen narrates Blade Runner".


Yeah, it just goes on like that.


Next issue, let's see if anyone's "hell bent" on learning how to place captions in a coherent manner!

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