Touch me. Touch me like you didn't touch me last night.

aves_ives!!!!!!!!!

I hid a secret homage to you and your work in the latest volume of The King of Fighters 2003, a book I edited for DrMaster!!!

SEE IF YOUR CLEVER EYES CAN SPOT IT!!!



I am an utter geek.

benjamin
PS -- There is a Rival Schools team in the book. COINCIDENTALISMS!!!</ strong></ strong>

You remember kickball, right? You loved it. And when your foot connected with that weird, bouncy, red rubber ball, what sound did it make? Why...I think it went...PENG!

These are a few of my student workers at the University of Illinois library.  AND THEY ARE KILLING FOR POSESSION OF PENG!



    So, here's the deal.  Peng is by Corey Sutherland Lewis the Rey, the MASSIVE, THROBBING BRAIN behind Sharknife. But you haven't read Sharknife, have you? That's because you're kinda backwards. But I forgive you. The question is whether, when you die, Jack Kirby, Osama Tezuka, and the dude who first snorted cocaine will forgive you.

    Peng is a "Martial-Arts Encrusted Sports Fable," all about the fast and furious world of competitive kickball, where spectators must take SLO-MOZ pills before the game, becaue the game is so fucking hyperspeed that the human eye cannot follow it. That's right, we're talking mystical powered pitches, freeze-breath moves to stop the ball, and dialogue that will make your inner child wanna drink two liters of Pepsi, eat a whole bag of Cheetoes, and then jump off the room 'cause the mothefucker KNOWS he can fly. Which he can't. But, while he lays quietly in Inner Intensive Care, he can read Peng all he wants. Hell, Sharknife and Scott Pilgrim both make guest appearances.

Grab some of this:

    The scene is: the Canadian team, the Dolpheets, are playing the Foot Knux (Our Heroes). The Dolpheets have applied their Super Super Move, the Red Leaf Formation(tm), where all of the team members manipulate the wind, thereby making it all but impossible to tell where the ball is coming from, and how fast. That matters little to Ven Morcada, as he can temporarily shift his point of vision outside his body, to take a "quantum snapshot" of where the ball is really coming from. So he pengs that bad body straight into the head of Kurt, one of the Dolpheets. The Doc checks out the injured player.

ABE BOLSON (Dolpheet): So Doc, when's he gonna get up and play some ball??

DOC: Uh, well...he's got a big nasty face-egg, and if I'm not mistaken, his brain has done a 360 inside of his skull...
(insert two little drawings of brain rotating in skull)

ABE: SO WHAT!!! I lost my arm on the kickball field, and I still played!!

DOC: Medically speaking, that's RAD.

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    Seriously, what more do you want out of a comic? It's 6 bucks for 72 page, no ads, and the illustrations are full of fabulous. One of my friends described it as "a scribbly, kinetic version of Naruto, with 50% more AWESOME." And that friend...was ME.


Click On This Image For a FIVE PAGE PREVIEW of PENG...and then buy it. My mom would love it. And my mom introduced me to LOBO and THE TICK.



Now go, my son...leave me...

b
With special thanks to, from left to right, Janet, Jennifer, Kevin, Betty, Lucy, and Celina. My student workers could kick your student workers' COLLECTIVE ASS!

PREVIOUS REVIEWS: Steady Beat v.1 by Rivkah, Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley, The Quitter by Harvey Pekar and Dean Haspiel, and a few movies.