This, the self-proclaimed "Zen Pop Funny-Animal Version" of Badger, is in a word, a mess. The storyline is simple - a druid wizard from the sixth century gets out of a mental health facility, persuades The Badger to ally with him, and sets about to make a killing on the stock exchange. He hires a pretty secretary, and allows her to psycho-analyse The Badger in her spare time. Meanwhile, a villain named The Mutilator is at large, destroying cattle (and any people it can get it's hands on), and successfully attempting to frame Larry Thorndyke, the druid, for this. There's a fight scene, the Mutilator escapes. All very standard for most first-halves in any type of superheroics. The tone of the book, however, varies all over the place, from wry humor, to horror, to Flying Carrot type wackiness, to standard superheroics, to supernatural confrontations, and briefly screaming through a few lines of fourth-wall whatever. And there isn't any smooth segueing here, either - Two panels of two lovers being decapitated with the dialogue "Die, Bitch!" "Die, Fliedermaus!" may be someone's idea of a good time, but not mine. The art is of a fairly high quality throughout, and the join between Butlers pencils (pages 1- 15) and Haley's (16-24) is so seamless, I honestly didn't notice it until I read the credits.
Art: 4
Writing: 3
Andrew