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Oh, Killstrike
Jared, a new father, fears parenthood. An old comics fan, he turns to them for comfort. But when he unwittingly lets loose his favorite character, Killstrike - a singleminded, vengeance loving anti-hero - onto the world, Jared must find a way to send him back before he harms all the people he loves the most. But before that happens, Killstrike leads Jared on a quest of self-discovery to make him realize the kid who loved this character is not the man he has become.
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128 pages, Paperback
First published March 30, 2016
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September 9, 2017
A fearful father goes on a journey of self discovery on a search for his father with a 90's era Image hero. But that's just an excusatory premise, the point of the book really is to skewer the comics of the 80's and 90's. Bemis particularly has it out for Rob Liefeld and Alan Moore even though he never actually comes out and mentions their names. It's extremely hard to get past Logan Faerber's awful artwork. The book would have worked better if they had gotten someone like Marat Michaels or one of those other in house artists for those awful 90's Image books to draw this. Instead, you had to rely on Bemis's dialogue to make fun of the 90's artwork because you couldn't see those extra deltoid muscles in the terribly messy art. This concept actually would have worked better as a one page daily comic.
May 25, 2018
I'm definitely biased being a Say Anything fan for over a decade, but I really enjoy Max's voice for comics
July 31, 2018
The premise is interesting -- a man who unwittingly is put on a mission to find his absentee father by the one-note anti-hero Killstrike who pops out of the comic book that he public hates but secretly loves. The art is decent, but I'm not entirely sure if it was the perfect fit for this sort of story.
If there's a big flaw, I think it kind of both had too much story but a lot of filler. Each issue has one big "set-piece" that's usually a gag surrounding the over-the-top Killstrike, until the very end, where it resolves everything in a few pages that feels like it should be deep but mostly makes one simply think "huh?"
...In fact, writing this down and the more I think about it, that actually describes a lot of comics from the 90s, so maybe that was the creators' intent?
I dunno. Cool premise, iffy execution, but there's a bit of fun to be had, especially if you're a life-long reader of comics.
If there's a big flaw, I think it kind of both had too much story but a lot of filler. Each issue has one big "set-piece" that's usually a gag surrounding the over-the-top Killstrike, until the very end, where it resolves everything in a few pages that feels like it should be deep but mostly makes one simply think "huh?"
...In fact, writing this down and the more I think about it, that actually describes a lot of comics from the 90s, so maybe that was the creators' intent?
I dunno. Cool premise, iffy execution, but there's a bit of fun to be had, especially if you're a life-long reader of comics.
May 8, 2017
Not as clever as it should be. Worth the time to read if you got nothing better to do. Would have been better of Grant Morrison wrote it.
November 4, 2017
Barely clever, not particularly funny. Well drawn in a cartoony style. Never gets to the heart of anything and only makes one one good joke out of every ten, so it's easy to skip.
July 25, 2018
Enjoyable send-up of the ridiculousness of the comics industry.
January 28, 2021
3.5 !
Honestly just a super fun and funny story of self redemption, acceptance, and love!
Honestly just a super fun and funny story of self redemption, acceptance, and love!
November 28, 2025
Meta-fiction about a nerd hating that he is a nerd. Also it's about really shitty dads.
November 16, 2019
Oh, the irony.
Disclaimer; I'm a big Max Bemis fan. Ive been following his and his wives careers for a while. I also believe that helps with reading Oh, Killstrike. Max's personality is really heavy in this one.
A new father, Jared, is starting to have a mental break down after his old favorite comic book hero comes to life. The two start their quest for revenge, while Jareds wife is left at home with their baby. It kinda feels like Max said "what if Grant Morrison was my dad" and then Bam Oh Killstrike was born! Lots of meta commentary on the comic book industry with amazing art and literally 4th wall breaking, Oh Killstrike was actually pretty fun just so long as you don't take it too seriously. Now, the real kicker. The book starts off explaining how there is a comic thats so bad, its rare. Its the worst of the worst making it super hard to find and an actual collectors piece. I know a lot of people didnt love this book and I'm not saying Max did it on purpose but I can appreciate the irony!
Disclaimer; I'm a big Max Bemis fan. Ive been following his and his wives careers for a while. I also believe that helps with reading Oh, Killstrike. Max's personality is really heavy in this one.
A new father, Jared, is starting to have a mental break down after his old favorite comic book hero comes to life. The two start their quest for revenge, while Jareds wife is left at home with their baby. It kinda feels like Max said "what if Grant Morrison was my dad" and then Bam Oh Killstrike was born! Lots of meta commentary on the comic book industry with amazing art and literally 4th wall breaking, Oh Killstrike was actually pretty fun just so long as you don't take it too seriously. Now, the real kicker. The book starts off explaining how there is a comic thats so bad, its rare. Its the worst of the worst making it super hard to find and an actual collectors piece. I know a lot of people didnt love this book and I'm not saying Max did it on purpose but I can appreciate the irony!
September 7, 2015
El dibujo no me gusta mucho y la historia es pasable
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