For example, are we supposed to know what animal or object is making half the noises that recur in the backgrounds of many a story? Sometimes the source is identified, but more frequently it’s not, leaving the non-expert in the dark. The cover copy describes it as “hauntingly elliptical,” but it could just as well read “irritatingly vague.” The question is whether Suzuki’s work is as obscure in Japanese as it is in English, and I suspect that it’s slightly less so, due to a lack of cultural barriers. I’m not tremendously familiar with the world of post-World War II Japanese comics, limiting myself mostly to Yotsuba&! so far, but Oji Suzuki’s A Single Match is pretty much the kind of thing that’s kept me away from gekiga (the serious counterpart to manga). The pacing isn’t ideal for the format (the endless “and then this happened” non-sequiturs work better in the single-page chunks of the webcomic), but Bad Guy Earth successfully translates Axe Cop to the physical realm.
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In Bad Guy Earth, Axe Cop and Dinosaur Soldier face off against an evil planet, psychic villains who want to turn Earth into a world full of bad guys, and, worst of all, real cops, who hate everything Axe Cop stands for. It’s born out of the effortless absurdity that comes naturally to children but is exceedingly difficult for adults to channel. McNinja and Awesome Hospital, where plot and character are often subservient to outlandish comic-book craziness. Axe Cop perfects the sort of thrill-powered ridiculousness found in more mannered webcomics like The Adventures of Dr. Nothing’s really changed other than the format and the addition of color. The Nicolles have parlayed that attention into a deal with Dark Horse Comics, who collected the first few months of the webcomic into a trade paperback in January and today release the first issue of the brand new three-issue Axe Cop: Bad Guy Earth miniseries. This is all old news if you were anywhere near a computer in early 2010, when links to Axe Cop overtook both social and old-time media sites from Twitter to Entertainment Weekly. Their war against bad guys is chronicled in the webcomic Axe Cop by six-year-old writer Malachai Nicolle and his thirty-year-old artist brother Ethan.
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His partner is a dinosaur soldier named Dinosaur Soldier.