Creator, writer and artist: Ted McKeever
Publisher: Image Comics
Released: 10th September 2014
It’s very easy to empathise with the character known as ‘HE’ in ‘The Superannuated Man.’ HE is surrounded by the inevitable endgame of Darwinian evolutionary theory. A wasteland where talking rats drink out of urinals, and humans are denigrated as evolutionary leftovers, anachronistic mounds of useless flesh that are to be looked at with suspicion and barely disguised disgust.
HE can try to stay away from the squalor, the filth, the godless, polluted mutants, but it always drags him back, out of his solitary hidden cave, back onto the litter strewn streets, where HE waits for the inevitable smack over the back of the head, a mugging, torture, pain. Well, it has to be better than nothing? Right?
HE is living in a world where human connectivity is dead. The animals have taken over. Charles Darwin is God now. HE feels old, lost, tired and disgusted with it all. HE has no direction. HE has no purpose. HE has no friends. HE has no family. HE has no soul mate. HE has no blood lust. HE has no desire to dominate. HE has no desire to use and abuse. HE is strange. HE is weird. HE just wants to be left alone.
‘You assholes couldn’t just leave things alone, could you? Just gone about your lives and left me the Hell alone.’
Of course they couldn’t. That is how the world of sick mutant animals works. A man who does no harm, who wants to be left alone, well that’s suspicious, right? He must be up to something. Best lump him over the head, just to be on the safe side.
I love this book. The artwork is beyond my descriptive abilities. Just take a look at the sample alongside this review. Is that not gorgeous? It goes without saying, though I'll bloody say it anyway, this is quite obviously a must buy book. You need to get it, now. Thank you Ted McKeever. You are a talented, talented man.
Rating: 10/10
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