Broken Frontier

A naked pervert get busted, hot monsters eat a bear, a cop is beat up, and some men are treated like ditch digging dogs! Best comic book ever!

Maybe that is a bit of an overstatement, but the latest issue of Girls does have a lot of cool happenings. The story begins with Wes, the sheriff, finding the AWOL Kenny, naked, surrounded by some of the "girls." The fun only escalates from there. Back at the farm, the imprisoned men are forced to dig a hole. I won’t tell you what the hole is for, but it should suffice to say it is Nancy’s idea. The guys who escaped are confronted by a bear and the psychological drama springing from the combined situations creates one of the best single issues I have read in a long, long time.

Jonathan and Joshua Luna are not strangers to the strange. They have, in point of fact, built a career on it. But with Girls they seem to be striving to place not only their characters, but their readers in uncomfortable situations. When the reader sees an army of gorgeous naked women bent on "using" the male population for their sperm, the wheels in the brain start to turn. How would I react in this otherworldly situation? Would I be like Wes, a cop bent on doing his job even when no one wants him to? How would my wife behave? Like Nancy? God, I hope not. The questions that arise go on and on. The characters then, live out these questions and represent some of the worst, best, and in-between answers in all of us. The Lunas are uncompromising in their view of the world and how real people would/should/could react to strange situations.

The Luna brothers’ art is also uncompromising. It is simple, crisp, and distinct. The backgrounds are just vivid enough to set the scene, but the characters, with their amazingly expressive looks, their fluid movements, and their varied appearances are what make this book fun to look at. Well, that and the hordes of naked women who have the potential to destroy the world. Additionally, the only book the Lunas will do that will look better than this issue is the next one. It seems the older they are, the better they become. Like a fine wine, their art only grows with age.

A fine wine; that is exactly what the Luna brothers’ latest work is. Every issue of Girls gets better. Just as a side note, when you go back and read old ones, you’ll see the same can be said for every read as well.