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Six Pack and Dog Welder #6

By Hervé St-Louis
February 27, 2017 - 12:16

Dog Welder and the rest of the crew are at the Sirius star system and one of them has to stop two stars from merging into one another and exploding. Such a scenario would destroy the universe. Dog Welder decides to step up to the task but it may cost him his life. Will he make it alive?

This chapter is as stupid as everyone before. This comic is not for me. What some would find fun and burlesque, I find petty and at the level of ten year-old boys’ joke. “He said penis!” No that word was not used in the comic but this is what passes for humour here. Cheap gags that make ten years-old boys blush and laugh. Dog Welder is finally finding redemption and we are getting rid of this silly character at the same time. I wish that we could get rid of all the others too while we’re at it.

Once Garth Ennis was provocative because his comics would use the very sort of dark humour jokes that shocked. He would say and do the things that we did not dare mention. Somewhere along the way, he became obsessed with parodies of super heroes at DC Comics and elsewhere and created these characters. The story’s plot is a blatant coming of age, hero’s journey for Dog Welder. It’s still stupid and I can’t believe I actually read all of this. I dreaded it which is why my review of this one issue is so late.

This comic is for people who still find laughter in the weird. Constantine here is not the current one. He is some weirdo who has sex with a bunch of walking guts just to enable her to have revenge on her cheating husband. But it turns out that said husband was just jerking off to his wife cheating on him with Constantine. Ennis followed with a puke joke. It’s not even gross at this point. It’s just dumb. The joke has no second level. It’s what it is. Most of this series has been this way. Crude jokes just because Ennis felt he could get away with them and that the kind of reader who likes his writing would get a kick out of it.

I don’t.

The saving grace of this comic is the artwork by Russ Braun. If it wasn’t for his renditions of the stupid with realistic-looking caricatures, this entire comic would have been a mess. I apologize for not being able to sustain more effort into reviewing this comic with its targeted audience in mind. I always try to review comics for their intended audience regardless of my personal tastes. It’s difficult for me to do so today. I don’t know who the targeted audience is and I cannot find anything good to say about a comic that is just above a narrative on defecation.

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