Lee, Rainer – Tuxedo Bandit #3

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Tuxedo Bandit #3

According to Rainer it’s been about a year since he sent the last issues of this series and, not to be mean about it or anything, but I can’t see any reason why this took so long.  The bulk of the book is just Tuxedo Bandit and Dr. Klaw talking; I wouldn’t be shocked to learn that Rainer has cut and pasted the images of their faces over and over again.  Then you throw in the couple of pages that are solid black (the power had gone out), and this is definitely the least visually interesting issue of the series.  Then again, the writing has certainly improved and he even manages to draw lips on a few occasions, so it looks like the art has gotten better as well.  It’s hard to be sure when these two are trapped in their apartment most of the time.  There’s a pile of stories in this one, but they’re mostly connected by a central idea: these two come up with increasingly ridiculous ideas and get increasingly large piles of money from Hollywood for them.  Other than that you have Bandit planning a surprise party for Dr. Klaw (with Klaw standing right there), Klaw denying his love for The Rock (the wrestler/actor, not the movie), the British Knights car, blind rowboating, 3-D potato chips, and Bandit finding a cat in the trash.  Still plenty of poop for you diehards (if there is such a thing as a poop diehard), and still plenty of funny bits.  A little more variety in the visuals would have been nice though.  Price is still a mystery, I’m sticking with $4.