God Hates Astronauts: The Omni-Mega-Bus

by Ryan Browne, James Harren (Artist), Tradd Moore (Artist)

14 years in the making, Ryan Browne’s (Curse Words, Quantum & Woody) absurdist, cult sensation, goof book is available in one remastered tome!

GHA is the gonzo “story” of a group of NASA-funded, super-powered, egomaniacs who are paid a living wage to stop unregistered agrarian space travel. Remember that movie The Astronaut Farmer? No?! Well it’s like that but with super powers, goofs, and wild punching. BUT! Our wonderful main characters are very bad at their jobs, and waste time focusing on extramarital affairs, big gross heads, and 3-D Cowboys, causing an intergalactic incident that leads to an all out space crab invasion of Earth! Bring on da jokes!

"I don't want to oversell what Ryan has accomplished here, but I gave God Hates Astronauts to a blind man and he regained his sight." – Jonathan Hickman (EAST OF WEST, The Manhattan Projects, The Avengers)

Collects GOD HATES ASTRONAUTS TP 1, 2, AND 3, plus 3-D COWBOY’S 2-D SPECTACULAR, GOATS EAT CASTANETS, THE GARBAGE EDITION, GRENADE HORSE APOCALYPSE, and THE HEAD THAT WOULDN’T DIE #4

Genres: Comics

696 pages, Paperback

Published March 15, 2022

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

People are constantly coming up to me and saying things like, "I've never read Gland Ham Angioplasty," and then they shove me to the ground and kick dirt into my face to make sure I cry about it. "It's not my fault," I shout through my tears. I just wish more people knew how to read, or at the very least stopped bullying those of us that know how to read so well and have refined tastes.

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is weird. It is a love letter to the 90's with lots of hidden jokes every page. Think N-64 jokes, family matters cameos, and just the nonsense of classic 90's cartoons. Problem is this is NOT Rick and Morty level of smart callouts, and more like Family Guy clips of just non stop random "bits" to the point the actual story suffers. The author knows this series went on to long as 80% of the way through entire pages are re-used with new dialogue with background people making fun of you (the reader breaks the 4th wall) for keeping on reading this nonsense story. I can only laugh at cats eating cheeseburgers and crab people from the crab nebula so much. (if that made you roll your eyes imagine 600+ pages of this level of jokes)

I can read silly stories, weird stories, 90's love callbacks. What annoys me is basic things like explanations of why NASA is in a war with Farmers is never explained. But they of course wasted so many pages giving me backstories of background characters of the C-list team.

[Chrisman · Rating 4 out of 5]

## WHY I PICKED IT UP ##

I had actually been searching for this comic off and on for a while now, but "superhero comic super gross head" doesn't get you very far.

And then somebody on tildes.net/~comics shared issue 1 of the author's *Eight Billion Genies*, which lead me back to *God Hates Astronauts*! So here we are.

## WHAT I LIKED ABOUT IT ##

Full of puns and non-sequiturs. Absurd, surreal, un-serious.

The giant gross head is probably one of the best things that has ever happened in all of comics.

## WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE ABOUT IT ##

At times it struggles to find its legs after the initial gag(s). It probably shouldn't have gone beyond the original 3 volumes. And it certainly shouldn't have included the re-lettering exercise. (It was tedious and added nothing whatsoever to the story; I skipped it.)

## WHO I'D RECOMMEND IT TO ##

Anybody with a taste for the absurd and tolerance for juvenile humor. If that's you, you will think this is very funny!

[Neon · Rating 3 out of 5]

While I enjoyed this Omni-Mega-Bus just after half way all the short stories breaking up the main story got on my nerves a little and the jokes became a tad repetitive too. Also a solid chunk of the book towards the end is just covers and a repeat of story you already read just with a few rewrites dialog wise, so I couldn't help feel a bit let down the book overall wasn't as long as I'd initially thought it was.

[Paul Allard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Silly and occasionally amusing comic about a bunch of super-heroes - OK but not really my cup of tea.

This comic collection is meant to be funny and is totally silly. It's occasionally entertaining but not really what i want from a comic series. The artwork is nicely done, colourful (but not too much) and detailed. It's comes over as a bit of a vanity project by the writer/artist. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

[Luke John · Rating 5 out of 5]

Clever, irreverent, manic space/super hero comedy that reads like a beautiful and insane stream of consciousness. Got some proper real works lols out of this one.

[Tayla · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF. Not for me.

[Melanie Gaum · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hypnotically bizarre.

[Cameron Lukan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Juvenile, "lol so random" humour. Not an objectively bad thing, just not for me. Should've googled before impulse buying.