Axe Cop: President of the World #1 Review

If you have ever read any Axe Cop, either online or in print, you probably know what to expect from Axe Cop: President of the World #1. It's crazy, goofy, and over the top. It's as entertaining as it is ridiculous. Basically, it's everything we love about Axe Cop.

This series is a direct sequel to Bad Guy Earth. If you read and enjoyed Bad Guy Earth (like we did), you love the hell out of this issue. If you didn't read Bad Guy Earth, don't fret. This isn't the kind of series that requires any intimate knowledge of continuity. Axe Cop is a cop that found an axe and he hates bad guys. That's pretty much all you need to know in order to fall in love with this book.

There is a lot going on in this issue. Axe Cop is now the President of the World, as you have probably guessed from the title. All the bad guys of the world have died from poisonous poop. There's a new cop named Goo Cop. There's a gorilla with robotic gun fists and several races of bad guy aliens that have set their sights on Earth. Nearly every page made me laugh. Malachai Nicolle writes like an unrestrained 8-year-old, because, you know, he is. His imagination has always been the driving force of Axe Cop and in this issue, it's racing along at full speed.

Ethan Nicolle's art is as playful as ever. Like every issue of Axe Cop, President of the World is requiring him to mash tons of information into each and every page. It's a credit to Ethan's art and storytelling skills that Axe Cop, and all the insanity that comes with it, always manages to run smoothly. I don't know why it took us so long to get a talking, bowtie-wearing gorilla with robotic gun fists in a comic book, but I'm glad Ethan Nicolle is the one drawing it. His art has grown a great deal throughout the Axe Cop series, and President of the World is some of his best work to date.

If you are not reading Axe Cop, you need to fix that. It's unbridled madness and is quite possibly the most fun you can have while reading a comic. Every once and a while, when I mention Axe Cop to someone who has never read the series, they'll ask me what it's about. I'll tell them it's not really about anything, at all; it's just a good time.

I'm just glad we live in a world where Axe Cop: President of the World exists.

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