12 December 2010

Stiletto 7

Everything and the kitchen sink by John B. Lai
Published by Ultimate Comics Group

After somehow surviving an alien civil war in the past story, "Detour" has the classy Stiletto and faithful pet puppy-monster Rigby hitching a ride home, at last. Until, the nasty nasty Godra launch a full-scale assault on their ship. Who are the Godra? Imagine a potty-mouthed cross between a Klingon and a Skrull. Yes, it's that serious.
And Lai continues his more serious direction for the femme fatale heroine, as close to such as possible for an intergalactic stripper. This iss does bring the reader a totally unexpected dream sequence though, a bit that answers a helluva lot of questions while setting up several possible future plot threads. Crafty crafty work.
All that can be said for the art of Stiletto, for those who've taken me up on my sage wisdom and checked out this series, is that Lai's actual layouts and storytelling are evolving faster than an other-dimensional, multi-pronged erection. His imagination is all over the place, as exampled by the range of stories he has popped out throughout the history of UCG, sure, by he seems to be operating under the delusion that Imagination is not a dead virtue. Thankfully, for those not easily offended anyhow, he is turning out some incredibly imaginative stuff with this, his pet-project comic book.
Stiletto is raven-haired in this arc. Stiletto is at once the name of the main character and of the comic series said main character stars in. And Stiletto is the rare type of story that has a royal plethora of colorfully weird, horny aliens. This will not teach you about String Theory, unless we are talking string bikinis. This kind of humor is not for everybody, certainly not for minors or nuns. Well, maybe some nuns, but you get the idea. Lots and lots of guilty fun, and it seems to only get better and better with each new issue.
Buy this book.

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