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By Jim Rugg & Brian Maruca (SLG)
ISBN: 1-5936-2012-8
Another spectacular Indie offering is this unbelievably readable pastiche of modern culture featuring the insane super-heroic exploits of monster crushing, ninja-hating Jesse Sanchez.
13 year old Sanchez is the eponymous Street Angel, a homeless girl who dumpster dives for food and cigarette butts, goes to school – when she has to – drinks cheap booze, and saves Angel city on a regular basis from Gods, monsters, scientists, super-villains and anything else that tries to do bad to the world. She has nothing to aid her but her phenomenal martial arts skills, skateboarding abilities and unwavering optimism.
Created by a team hopelessly seduced by, but not trapped in, a wash of popular culture iconography such as comic-books, trashy movies, skater-boy chic and the timeless beauty of excessive and cleverly staged gratuitous violence, this wickedly clever spoof is a masterpiece of cliché-busting fun illustrated with an startlingly accessible and economic verve and utility that can’t help but suck you down like a Aztec God tripping over his own time portal. I especially call your attention to CosMick O’Brannigan, the World’s First Irish Astronaut and fluent speaker of Australian – “The Friendliest Language on Earth†as a potential megastar of the future.
Smart, sassy and catchy as a “Chicken Tonight†jingle – this is a series worth hunting for.
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