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4/8 MEGATON MAN #0 (Fiasco Comics) Everything: Don Simpson Clouds: Dave White (me!) S P O I L E R S According to Don Simpson, MEGATON MAN #0 is the owner's manual for the Fiascoverse. It's as good a description as any: while hardly anything new is introduced, everything that's ever happened in BIZARRE HEROES since issue #0 is explained in a concise, streamlined form that makes sense. Yeah, you heard me right, it actually makes sense. All the origins are revealed, all the connnections shown, and even new information revealed like the full origins of Philip Loeb, the Phantom Jungle Girl and the Meddler. If you can't follow BIZARRE HEROES, or if you're a recent convert, then pick this one up. It'll be indispensible. If you can follow BIZARRE HEROES, well, there's plenty of new stuff here to make you pick up the issue anyway. If you've never heard of BIZARRE HEROES, this is a good jumping-on point. Simpson's artwork still shines. It's not simplistic like it can be sometime, yet he hasn't over-inked everything like he occasionally does (and is deliberately doing for his Megaton Man story in ASYLUM). The writing -- well, this is basically a recap, but it makes you realize that Don actually isn't making up this stuff as he goes along. Did I mention that I did the clouds on the cover? Aw, what the hell do I know anyway? BLAND Reviews are archived at http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/dw4e/zuni/r.html DAVE WHITE, dw4e+@andrew.cmu.edu, http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/dw4e "Those who induce these stressors on you, were individually not your friends in the first place, for they wish through these stressors to either brainwash you, transvalue your sex, or even kill you with alphabet soup." --Owen W. Gustafson