These three comics also all share an obscene, sophomoric sense of humour and a scatterbrained approach to plotting, where events unfold erratically and often nonsensically. Similarly, these comics all follow clueless slacker characters getting swept up in wacky adventures that parody the plots of conventional genre fiction (in Puke Force, the main sources being drawn upon seem to be videogames and superhero comics). All three of these works share dystopian fantasy settings that don’t take themselves in the least bit seriously – the kind of places where robots, mutants and goblins hang out in dive bars and donut joints alongside gutter punks, rednecks and anthropomorphic animals. In terms of other comics I’ve read, this is in a very similar vein to the similarly-titled Multiforce by Mat Brinkman, as well as Adventures in Paradise by Gary Panter. I’d never read any of Chippendale’s comics before this, but I’m a fan of his band, Lightning Bolt, so I came to Puke Force expecting it to be loud, abrasive, energetic and experimental, and it didn’t disappoint on any of these counts.
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