Monday, 16 February 2009

Viz 183

One of my not-so-guilty pleasures forced its way through my letter box yesterday; viz, the latest issue of Viz (this link apparently takes you to a "less shit viz website")

I read most of it on the stepper at the gym, polishing off Roger Mellie at home.

Not a classic, but still has its laugh-out loud moments.
"The Bee Man of Big Ben" is a sort of surreal piss-take of the Dam Busters, exquisitely drawn. Huge talent spent on something, well, childish, but revelling rightly in that childishness. That's Viz all over...

No hilarious letters for once- usually a strong point.

A fun "Photo Romance" about rich people not enjoying the credit crunch.

More Godot-esqe bleakness with the Drunken Bakers (for some reason one of them self-medicating flour for facial cuts caused by landing in broken glass had me almost falling off the stepper. Also beautifully drawn).

A standardly fun Profanisaurus.
Cleverest is probably "Excalibird: A magnificient piece that a chap manages to pull successfully, against all the odds."

And the highlight? Well, I suppose the Critics, who go from writing about how the recession is(n't) causing great Art to be produced to stacking shelves at Sainsco themselves... And then...

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