Troutman, Dick – Outfitters #6: Sucks

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Outfitters #6: Sucks

At first glance, this looks like all the characters of Archie comics vs. Charlie Brown, with a lot of relationship antics thrown in. After reading it, yeah, that pretty well sums it up. I have no idea what was going on in the other 5 issues of this series. I suppose that’s a good thing, seeing as how I missed them, but if it was like this one every time it probably got old. “Sucks” is the Charlie Brown look-a-like who gets his locker door jammed every day, with pretty much everybody in the school either in on it or not giving a shit that this was going on. The main character, Ruggo, is dating a girl who’s slowly starting to see somebody else, but he’s still having sex with her. I should mention that this is set in high school so there’s probably no reason to expect emotional maturity in these dealings, so he’s got that part right. Anyway, the problem is that this Ruggo guy is such a prick that I didn’t really care what happened to him. His relationship isn’t going that well. So what? He still gets to have sex with the girl and with another random girl who discovers that he’s “available”. A lot of petty, silly stuff, which is just like high school. This is an interesting book, and it’s probably only me who was annoyed to be looking at Archie characters the whole time. That’s probably just the way he draws and I’ll give him a complex or something if I keep this up. Check out the website or just e-mail him to see how you can get this ($2) or back issues maybe.