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Space Beaver

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I had vaguely heard of Space Beaver when I started reading Transmetropolitan. Enjoying the super-detailed art of Darick Robertson, I wondered if I would enjoy Space Beaver as well. Let me tell you, after reading both volumes, I love Space Beaver! The characters are believeable, with real emotion. It is also a wonderful thing to witness Darick's artistic progression from the somewhat cartoon-like beginning of the book, to the sharply detailed, and realistic end. Violent, funny, sad: these things describe Space Beaver. It's not Shakespear, but what do you expect from a bunch of talking animals, shooting lasers at each other!? Buy Space Beaver, it's totally fun, and totally legal!

In 1946, while attempting to invent a cure for being vaporized by a detonated atomic warhead, researchers unexpectedly discovered the universe could essentially be broken down into two fundamental categories: those which are Space Beaver, and those which fail miserably to be Space Beaver. The only thing remaining was for Space Beaver to be invented, and in 1986 Darick Robertson did just that.

Whether or not Darick would ever have become the comic artist he is today if he hadn't tried to draw comics, we may never know. But we definitely wouldn't have Space Beaver, as well as some other stuff like Transmetropolitan, and I think he does some work for Marvel or something. Or perhaps I'm thinking of Arby's. No, I'm almost positive it was Marvel.

But more recent, high-profile works aside, Space Beaver is something you absolutely must have. Why? Name three other things that have anything to do with a beaver in outer space. You probably don't even have one thing with a beaver from space in it. What kind of person are you? Obviously you are lacking in Space Beaver-related things. Besides, it's a good comic book--a juxtaposition of words and pictures as a means of relating a story. A storytelling medium invented entirely by Darick himself (unconfirmed). But the important thing that you should know is those words and pictures are pretty good ones. And there are lots of them too.

But don't take my word for it, or even Darick Robertson's (whose endorsement is implicit, by the way). Consider the words of Abraham Lincoln himself, who said "No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens." And there certainly are.

This is the best comic about a Beaver in Space that I have ever read! It's really interesting to see how a 17 year old nobody started his career with this stuff! If you like Transmetropolitan, you should read Space Beaver. Not that they're anything alike, but Warren Ellis wrote something in both titles, and Darick Robertson drew them both. Every story has a beginning and this is Darick Robertson's. And hey, even THIS is better than Phantom Menace.

I have never read it, but I love it!