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Holy Ghost El Gato

By Leroy Douresseau
January 9, 2004 - 15:26

Michael Aushenker's El Gato is virtually in a class by itself, though it's also a distant cousin to the comic book, HELLBOY, or a TV show like "Powerpuff Girls," but filtered through the inspired lunacy of underground commix. HOLY GHOST EL GATO is the second El Gato comic, and thankfully, it's in a larger tabloid format. It's takes a larger than average comic to contain Aushenker's mightier than average manic energy.

El Gato the Crime Mangler is a wrestler/superhero with such a hate-on for criminals that he'd destroy a city and take innocent lives if that's the cost of stopping evil. He'd died in an earlier comic, but now he's back from hell, back from the dead in the body of a big ape. He has to solve big mysteries and conspiracies, while his new body decays around his black soul. See, he won't eat bananas, and that's the only thing that will preserve his new body.

This is a totally fun comic meant for anyone with a sense of humor. The art is sort of a raw Peter Bagge, and the writing is Silver Age comics on crack. If this wasn't enough Michael includes several one-page gags featuring his lecherous educator, Professor Pap. Visit www.elgatocomics.com for more info.

[DRECK, DULL, READABLE, PRETTY GOOD, EXCELLENT]

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