Lavy, Lee – Tardcore Comics #2

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Tardcore Comics #2

Please read the review for Tardcore #1 before coming back to this one, as it’ll clear up my basic opinions of this sort of thing. Done? OK, good. Now that you know where I’m coming from, how about this issue? Well, it’s one big story, not the few stories pieced together like the last issue, so it’s much easier to either love it or hate it. The story is simple enough, and even slightly heartwarming, at least for a few panels. In the world of the aliens from the first book (you know, the one that wanted the bum to touch his mar-mar), retardation is not acceptable, so every time a retarded baby is born, it is killed and eaten immediately. However, in a large, fancy ceremony, the queen of these aliens has a retarded baby. She loves the little creature instantly and decides to hide its retardation from the world at large… but that can only last so long. Eventually the�child gets out and, as babies are made on this planet simply by touching the mar-mar, soon the child learns the pleasure involved with getting his mar-mar touched and this alien world is visited by a plague of retarded babies. Oddly enough, I enjoyed this one quite a bit more than the first one. Maybe just the mood I was in at the time, but the art in this one is even better than the first issue (and that’s not one of things I had a problem with the first time around anyway), and this is a story that was really helped by being the focus of the comic instead of one of many stories. Granted, it would be nice if some of the spelling mistakes were fixed (“thrown” for “throne”, the eternal wrongness of “your” instead of “you’re”), but in a story this ridiculous, it’s not going to be the straw that broke that old camel’s back. Either you’re going to enjoy the sheer absurdity and offensiveness of the story already or you’ll hate it, in which case a few spelling errors aren’t going to be what drives you away. Worth a look if you like this sort of thing, and the sampled page isn’t like most of the rest of the issue, but I couldn’t resist posting the part in the story where the author loses all hope and questions everything. $2.99