Yes, I have reviewed it, but The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1 really hit the spot!
That’s why this new series from Mad Cave Studios is the pick of the week!
Review: The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1
Something a little manic this week, from Mad Cave Studios, it’s The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1.
Disco Hippo Wonderland is the number one amusement park in Flamingo City.
But few realise its corpulent owner, Jans M’jor Discau, is about to release the most potent drug ever created: Coke45!
Fortunately for humanity, Agent Clarke Nebraska is on the case! She’ll bring down Discau come heck or high water! That was the plan, until her undercover agent, Tico Senecoza, was captured! And before she can rescue him, Miquel, Tico’s sexy loose cannon of an older brother beats her to the punch, storming into the park with bullets flying.
Discau panics, dumping the Coke45 into the hippo enclosure and letting them loose on the park, before fleeing into Wonderland’s tunnel network! Nebraska’s plans are totally off the rails, and things get worse when a marijuana smoke fuelled hurricane drowns the park in torrential rain!
Now it’s up to Nebraska and Miquel to create an uncomfortable truce to bring Discau down before he escapes!
Author: Fred Kennedy
Artist: James Edward Clark
OK, so I knew roughly what to expect going in. You don’t have a comic titled The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre without expecting some crazy goings-on.
This is why I enjoyed Cocaine Bear: it’s not a deep story, but the absolute madness of going through it is something to behold.
This includes the PSA at the beginning that sets the deranged tone for the rest of the comic. With sweaty bosses, massive explosions, slow-motion attacks1 and, of course, hippos, this was a wild ride from beginning to end. I hope the series' pace continues.
Get it at Forbidden Planet:
A very rare find in comics!