Written by Tim Seeley
Art by Ross Campbell and Mike Norton
Colors by Carlos Badilla and Mark Englert
Inks by Crank!
Published by Four Star Studios
I tend to hate super hero comic books, and Marvel is rarely ever going to be reviewed at Comics Forge, but sometimes a super hero comic book deserves a bit of a review. Action Double Feature number 1 by “hacking” Tim Seeley and Mike Norton is one of those truly worthy super hero independently produced, printed, published, and set into digital format. The story opens up with “Race Relations” where our super hero in costume Mr. Jack Kraken is hanging out in an abandoned prison wishing he was at home drinking sleepy time tea and doing anything other than what is about to happen next. The funny part is when Jack is busy punching out ghosts, monsters, and otherwise that he is called a racist because ghosts, monsters and otherwise are offended by his use of the term ghost, monster and otherwise. Tim Seeley really does a bang up job of setting up the identity, super secret origins, and some twisted humor in just eight pages of mayhem.
The story then moves on to another short story by Mike Norton which brings us back from the edge of super hero mayhem and more into the super spy story line. There is nothing better than stacked swimsuit terrorists cranking up the mayhem in Hawaii. There is one fall down funny boat scene, and the way that this is done is actually fairly tasteful in terms of the story line, and how fast this could have gone in the other direction of being stupid. Rather the second story is well done and highly entertaining if you like your super spies being wrung out in Hawaii, and still winning the day for everyone.
Four Star productions has done a very good job of putting together a couple of stories for the general audience that will just make the average reader happy. You pretty much so get it all in this digital comic, mayhem, violence, super heroes, super spies, swimsuit models, and the occasional swear word along the way. I am going to rate this puppy five of five stars because this comic book is simply awesome. It helps that I love the creators and have been a huge fan of Tim Seeley for a long time going back to Devils Due Publishing and the early incarnations of Hack Slash. With this new effort and the new group over there at Four Star I am looking forward to seeing tons more digital comics, and maybe a special cover out there every now and then for a physical printing. This comic is on Graphicly and on ComiXology, or you can get it as its own app on Apple. Either way, 99 cents, you can’t go wrong.
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