Numbercrunching: Sea Bear & Grizzly Shark
Cost: $4.99
Story Pages: 48
Of which how many are splash pages: 2
Or which how many make up double splash pages: 2
Cost per page: 10.4 cents
Deaths: 22
Cost per death: 22.7 cents
Occasions that Sea Bear and Grizzly Shark fight: 0
Zero? Yup.
What? It’s not that kind of book. Emerging as a title first, there are two comics here, one by Ryan Ottley about a Grizzly Shark who lives in the woods, hunting and being hunted, and about an ocean-dwelling Sea Bear and its various progeny in a revenge-fuelled thriller.
So they don’t even meet? Maybe they’re saving it for the sequel.
I’m a little disappointed. Don’t be. There is murder, mayhem, cinnamon ice cream and robotic assassins.
That’s better. And Robert Kirkman writes the intro explaining how such mixed up creatures came to be.
Is it funny? Yes.
Is it stomach churning? Yes.
Is there a litany of jokes about a young boy who has been cut in half? Oh yes. A running joke. Just without the legs.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Now you’re getting it.
Will I be a better person for reading this comic? No. Definitely not.
Sea Bear & Grizzly Shark is released this week from Image Comics.
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