Xenoholics #1 – Review

By: Joshua Williamson (writer), Seth Damoose (art), Paul Little (colors) & Jade Dodge (editor)

The Story: A support group for people who have been abducted by aliens.

Four things:

1). Not as funny as I’d thought.  The teaser campaign for this was full of oddball humor featuring a page of sequential art of a chubby guy (think the dad in Family Guy) saying how he’d been kidnapped by aliens who anally probed him and….  he “thinks he liked it.”  That was what I expected from this issue and I didn’t really get it.  The issue also committed the sin of kinda assuming you’d seen that teaser campaign as there were references to enjoying anal probing, but we didn’t actually see THE scene from the marketing materials.  The overall effect was a comic that wasn’t funny when the marketing materials were very funny.

2).  Cute art.  That might not seem like the kindest way to describe art: cute.  But, it is the word that comes to mind and it is meant in the most positive fashion possible.  The light and cartoony art gives this comic almost its entire feel and is probably the best thing about the issue.