Futility is a really gross comic. You may be able to tell that from the cover. It's everything the EC comics wanted to be but couldn't because there were just still some thing that you couldn't do back in the 50s. Cam Hayden and Rick Overwater have no such qualms.
I read the first 2 issues of this series a little while back but didn't get around to blogging them, but at the recent Fan Expo I snagged signed copies of the next 3 issues, because it's just that good. Now, bear in mind that when I say that, it's not necessarily a nice comic. It's not going to leave you feeling good. Red Hayes, farmer and amateur astronaut, is not a good guy. He's a redneck from the middle of Texas in the 1960s. But I get the suspicion that the weirdness he's encountering on his journey through space is maybe opening his mind a little more than it used to be. And then there's the art - visceral and bloody, hearkening, for me at least, to the grossest of the undergrounds. Space is a weird, slimy place, and poor Red just isn't equipped to handle it.
Tomorrow I'll read issue 4, after which the creators have decided to do graphic novels instead. Which I'll get back to one of these days, really.
Futility is a local comic to Alberta, and is definitely evidence that we're not all conservative nightmares out here. This is some high weirdness.
"But it could -- uh -- end with the enslavement of your entire world."
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