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Bad guys, beware! Evil aliens, run for your lives! Axe Cop is here, and he's going to chop your head off! We live in a strange world, and our strange problems call for strange heroes. That's why Axe Cop - along with his partner Flute Cop and their pet T. rex Wexter - is holding tryouts to build the greatest team of heroes ever assembled. Created by five-year-old Malachai Nicolle and illustrated by his older brother, the cartoonist Ethan Nicolle, Axe Cop Volume 1 collects the entire original run of the hit webcomic that has captured the world's attention with its insanely imaginative adventures. Whether he's fighting gun-toting dinosaurs, teaming up with Ninja Moon Warriors, or answering readers' questions via his insightful advice column, "Ask Axe Cop," the adventures of Axe Cop and his incomparable team of crime fighters will delight and perplex even the most stoic of readers.… (mais)
Axe Cop is a cop who chops bad guys' heads off with his axe. His partner is Flute Cop, who, through various transformations, becomes Dinosaur Soldier, Avocado Soldier, and Uni-Avocado Soldier. In the world of Axe Cop, very smart people sprout unicorn horns that grant wishes, good guys always beat bad guys, and somehow the good guys are easily identifiable despite their tendency to, say, chop people's heads off and eat babies.
The important thing to understand about Axe Cop is that it all originated from the mind of a 5-year-old boy. The series started off as just play-time between Ethan Nicolle (29 at the time) and his younger brother. Ethan turned it into some comic book pages, posted it online, and it took off. Conversations with Malachai helped produce material for additional Axe Cop adventures. Each story and "Ask Axe Cop" strip in this volume includes commentary from Ethan with "behind the scenes" info about the process of translating Malachai's words and ideas into comics.
It's a wacky, weird series that's over-the-top even by the standards of the most over-the-top action story you can think of. Anything could happen. At the same time, certain things come up repeatedly, and young boy thought processes put certain limits on the story. There was a lot of poison, unicorn horns, zombies, and random exploding items. Ethan mentioned the difficulty he had with getting Malachai to create villains that weren't incredibly easy for Axe Cop to beat (from a "working with children" perspective, I found Ethan's notes about what did and did not work well when it came to getting new material from Malachai fascinating).
I loved the weirdness of it all, and I really liked certain strips and stories. Of the longer stories, my favorite was probably Baby Man's quest to acquire all the things on his "Hunting List." I laughed out loud at Malachai's ideas about the sorts of things that might lure adults to their doom (free cars, ringing phones).
That said, this was a little exhausting to read all in one go, and although I love the way this series originated (this seems like such a cool way for an older and younger brother to bond), I'm not sure I'm interested in continuing on with it.
Extras:
Includes a gallery with 7 additional black-and-white illustrations created by other artists.
Whoopingly hilarious! This collaboration between a 29-year-old comic artist and his 5-year-old half-brother is laugh-out-loud funny. The wild, little-boy imagination runs riot: there are plenty of beheadings, explosions, killings, superheroes, awesome weapons, and too-convenient plot contrivances. The artist gives respectful graphic vision to these wild imaginings which not only cranks up the hilarity factor but also unexpectedly reveals sweet moments of child-like innocence and naivete. The Axe Cop advice pages are absolutely hysterical. ( )
OMG -- I can't believe I read this whole book. It was so stupid I couldn't stop because I had to see how absurd it could actually get. Overall, it was to absurd even for me. I really enjoyed a lot of the artwork. It got better as the book went. I liked the "Ask Axe Cop" sections the best. The stories are written by a 5 or 6 year old and it really feels that way. Some interesting characters, but then they would change into a robot or a zombie or something else and the inconsistency had my mind whirling. ( )
OMG -- I can't believe I read this whole book. It was so stupid I couldn't stop because I had to see how absurd it could actually get. Overall, it was to absurd even for me. I really enjoyed a lot of the artwork. It got better as the book went. I liked the "Ask Axe Cop" sections the best. The stories are written by a 5 or 6 year old and it really feels that way. Some interesting characters, but then they would change into a robot or a zombie or something else and the inconsistency had my mind whirling. ( )
Bad guys, beware! Evil aliens, run for your lives! Axe Cop is here, and he's going to chop your head off! We live in a strange world, and our strange problems call for strange heroes. That's why Axe Cop - along with his partner Flute Cop and their pet T. rex Wexter - is holding tryouts to build the greatest team of heroes ever assembled. Created by five-year-old Malachai Nicolle and illustrated by his older brother, the cartoonist Ethan Nicolle, Axe Cop Volume 1 collects the entire original run of the hit webcomic that has captured the world's attention with its insanely imaginative adventures. Whether he's fighting gun-toting dinosaurs, teaming up with Ninja Moon Warriors, or answering readers' questions via his insightful advice column, "Ask Axe Cop," the adventures of Axe Cop and his incomparable team of crime fighters will delight and perplex even the most stoic of readers.
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The important thing to understand about Axe Cop is that it all originated from the mind of a 5-year-old boy. The series started off as just play-time between Ethan Nicolle (29 at the time) and his younger brother. Ethan turned it into some comic book pages, posted it online, and it took off. Conversations with Malachai helped produce material for additional Axe Cop adventures. Each story and "Ask Axe Cop" strip in this volume includes commentary from Ethan with "behind the scenes" info about the process of translating Malachai's words and ideas into comics.
It's a wacky, weird series that's over-the-top even by the standards of the most over-the-top action story you can think of. Anything could happen. At the same time, certain things come up repeatedly, and young boy thought processes put certain limits on the story. There was a lot of poison, unicorn horns, zombies, and random exploding items. Ethan mentioned the difficulty he had with getting Malachai to create villains that weren't incredibly easy for Axe Cop to beat (from a "working with children" perspective, I found Ethan's notes about what did and did not work well when it came to getting new material from Malachai fascinating).
I loved the weirdness of it all, and I really liked certain strips and stories. Of the longer stories, my favorite was probably Baby Man's quest to acquire all the things on his "Hunting List." I laughed out loud at Malachai's ideas about the sorts of things that might lure adults to their doom (free cars, ringing phones).
That said, this was a little exhausting to read all in one go, and although I love the way this series originated (this seems like such a cool way for an older and younger brother to bond), I'm not sure I'm interested in continuing on with it.
Extras:
Includes a gallery with 7 additional black-and-white illustrations created by other artists.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.) (