Dan the Unharmable #1

Regular Cover Art and Writting By: David Lapham

Art and all other Covers By: Rafael Ortiz

Colours By: Digikore Studios

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Dan the Unharmable is the creator owned work we have all be waiting for from Lapham. It is funny, satirical, sarcastic, bloody, and an all round unique and fun time! It incorporates some of his much missed musical referencing, like that of his Young Liars days, and what I consider to be one of his funniest scripts yet.(Outside of his Deadpool Max series’ that is)

Dan the Unharmable is exactly what you would imagine him to be: a somewhat scummy, self-reliant, self-serving man with an itch for picking fights and solving the problems of hot co-eds. His friend Tober, an innocent and warm-hearted man out for his fellow man, asks him to start taking a tape recorder on his missions in order to help him retrace and fix any issues he has throughout – that and he wants all those gritty details.

The lucky lady of Dan’s day is a student with a few ‘art’ films on the loose that she would rather have contained. When he is pushed to the limit by way of a broken Prick CD, the men he was trying to steal the tapes back from experience and unleash of his mega-man powers. One guy even gets punched square through his nuts and buttocks! After he is rewarded by the fair lady for his success, Dan is faced with two horrifyingly sudden and life changing events: he has a daughter with a murdered mother and his friend Tober has been maimed and killed by someone from Dan’s past.

It’s very refreshing to see Lapham come back to his roots with an in-your-face, hardcore, comedical story about a man who he can pit against literally anything and have him come out on top. Dan the Unharmable is laced thick with satire and dark humour. Carrying an essence of nearly every gangster movie you have ever seen with that added hint of strength and disconcerting in his protagonist which will have you on your toes and dying for more!

Alongside the brilliant plot and writing comes an equally astounding artist. Ortiz does a perfectly suited design for Dan, making him everything you would imagine him to be and more. His curl haired, rocker persona would never allow someone to suspect his indestructibility and superior amount of balls! Whether he is responsible for the design or not (I’m nearly positive Lapham does the original) he holds true to a very humours and laid back styling throughout the issue that is not only suitable but, enhancing to the greatness of this titles introduction.

I thanked the comic gods every second while reading for this series to have turned out as well as it has through it’s introduction. The options are limitless here and I, as you should be, am anticipating the hell out of every moment Lapham and Ortiz have to offer for it.