The Jam: Super Cool Color-Injected Turbo Adventure from Hell # 2

The Jam: Urban Adventure #scc2

by Bernie Mireault, Claude Lalumière

Bernie Mireault's acclaimed 1980s cult classis series The Jam returns in a new adventure for the 21st Century. Also featuring a rare Jam story appearing in color for the first time, and the debut of a new series, Avatars of Adventure, in collaboration with writer Claude Lalumière.

Genres: Graphic Novels

68 pages, Paperback

Published January 2, 2022

About the author

Bernard Edward Mireault was a French-born Canadian comic book artist and writer.

Reviews

[Dominick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun, rather eclectic collection. There's technically only one Jam story (Gordon Kirby appears in another, but not in costume), though it takes up a good chunk of the book. The most interesting thing about it is how it contrasts the reality of what happened with what I infer is The Jam's delusional construction of what really happened. There's also a really keen robot vs monster story, a sort of humorous slice of life piece about claiming a chair abandoned on the street, an odd piece that is part of a planned longer series of stories called "Avatars of Adventure" and a few odd but intriguing paintings to fill it out. Fans of Mireault, like me, can rejoice to see this material.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

"To Get Her" was a nice closing of the story for "The Jam" so I waited in bated breath for over a decade for this sequel to where it all began.

Unfortunately, this story is an adaptation of a prose piece and while it does open things back up a bit, it doesn't honestly seem to add anything to the mythology. It's great to see the new work, but I'm not a huge fan of the digital direction--and thought the original Urban Jungle run petered out a bit.