NEW DSTLRY GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM CURT PIRES (Indigo Children, Youth) AND AMILCAR PINNA (X-Men)!
What if George Lucas and Quentin Tarantino f@#&ed and had a baby? That baby would be Curt Pires and Amilcar Pinna's GALACTIC. An ultraviolent interstellar romance that tells the story of a roguish bounty hunter hired to bring back a Princess on a death-bender on a hippy planet, and inadvertently find themselves caught in the crossfire of an intergalactic war.
And maybe, just maybe, falling in love along the way!
Did we mention there's a talking dog who pilots the starship?!
Rating/review only for issue 1. Won't continue the series. Parts of this are such a blatant ripoff of Star Wars I'm surprised it made it past editing. The most blatant: Not-Han shooting an alien in a seedy bar and escaping on his ship with a space werewolf (instead of Space Bigfoot), a princess in need of rescuing, THE DAMN SLAVE BIKINI, the hooded villain saying "execute order command sequence 66" like ARE YOU KIDDING. There's a few pages of a slave auction, all female victims, all in Leia's slave bikini, that adds nothing to the story besides tickling the male writers' fantasies about Princess Leia and using women as sex slaves I guess. Boo. Hiss.
Issue #1 (which doesn't have its own page): 3.5 out of 5 stars. Although it can be called a "knock-off" of Star Wars, it's also heavily influenced by European comics, especially Moebius, and openly embraces its references by shouting them out in the text -- so less of a knock-off and more of an homage, if you're being friendly toward it. I thought it was a fun time, at least. SW + Moebius + naughty bits = a decent romp, if nothing else.