Created, Written, & Illustrated by John B. Lai
Published by Ultimate Comics Group
Beginning her second big story arc, and having narrowly avoided total calamity when the previous owner of Stiletto's Bi-Curian Custom Blaster tried miserably to declare herself drama queen incarnate, we find Stiletto and her puppy pet monster Rigby arriving on yet another world, one more bothersome than this here run-on sentence.
Instantly caught between two warring factions, our nubile intergalactic adventureress soon finds that one of these groups is a brutal, cannibalistic vulgarity of a species, and Stiletto herself may not be able to make it out of this one on her feet.
Lai continues his bizarrely comedic spin on the trials and tribulations of an intergalactic stripper, and with this issue infuses a severe thread of drama into the overall tapestry. Still a fun, no holds barred ride, with enough science fiction and tongue in cheek cheesecake to attract many a red-blooded male. And female. Great fun, and though not at all pornographic in content, this is once more, by no means whatsoever a comic book for minors.
His computer-generated art continues its own madcap path, mixing realistically-rendered people amidst cartoony aliens and imaginative worlds in an almost hallucinatory, psychedelic fashion. The color scale is gorgeously verbose and vivid, and his designwork is just as creative as a Ritalin-deprived, precocious child hopped up on candybars and endless supplies of every crayola ever manufactured. Lai isn't trying to win any awards, he's clearly just hellbent on telling an original, adventurous (but graciously funny) tale. And he absolutely succeeds.
A fast-paced rollercoaster presented and fully-packaged for grown-ups of particular tastes, Stiletto's new story deserves a closer look. And maybe an unfiltered cigarette after the fact.
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