Mark Martin (2)

Mark Martin is a very funny guy who can draw like hell, and he tosses off bizarre sight gags and left-field dialogue like nobody's business. That said, I'm pretty sure Gnatrat makes no sense at all unless you're pretty familiar with the Frank Miller comics that it was parodying -- and you might wonder why bother, because parodying Frank Miller is like shooting big square-jawed fish in a dark gritty barrel. However, after shooting all the fish in the barrel, Martin jumps into the barrel and flies it to the moon. Of the ten million silly gags in this comic, my favorites are the ones that have nothing to do with Batman but are just pure surreal Duh-logic in a Goon Show style -- like the arch-villain bankrupting Gnatrat by ordering a pizza in his name every five minutes, or the other arch-villain who, when the police commissioner climbs in the window to arrest him, cackles "Fool! Do you think that is the only window in this place? If they can let you in, they can let me out!" Hee hee.… (meer)