I feel like the second issue of Space Warped is even stronger than the first. While the first issue set up to Star Wars knock-off set in a feudal land, this issue just gets to tell the jokes.

This issue, the guys are on their way to rescue the Princess… sorry, the Lady. There are funny flying birds, bird poop jokes and a much stronger female character than in the original Star Wars. Since Bourhis is playing the series for laughs, he doesn’t have to worry about making anyone likable. He doesn’t exactly exaggerate the original characters, he just amplifies them to an annoying level. And, at that level, everything they do becomes hilarious.

The art is crisp and fast, just like the first issue. Spiessert actually gets creative with his panel layouts this time and it confused me enough I had to reread.

It’s another solid, amusing issue.

CREDITS

Writer, Hervé Bourhis; artist, Rudy Spiessert; colorist, Mathilda; letterer, Deron Bennett; editors, Dafna Pleban and Lewis Trondheim; publisher, kaboom!

Space Warped is one of Kaboom!’s first titles (maybe their first title) and it’s a charming Star Wars riff from France. The art from Rudy Spieserrt is great, especially the expressions on the characters’ faces. He has a great sense of pacing the scenes, waiting for the joke, then the reaction.

The one problem I see for it—besides it being funny without being uproarious, I mean Star Wars is thirty years old at this point and Space Warped doesn’t bring anything to the table Hardware Wars did—is the humor being a little too adult.

Maybe kids in France get the jokes about druids and such, but I can’t see American kids even knowing druid is spelled similarly to droid.

Also, the comic directly equates droids’ (or druids’) servitude to slavery, something the movies never touched on. It’s a mature observation and out of place.

Still, it’s cute.

CREDITS

Writer, Hervé Bourhis; artist, Rudy Spiessert; colorist, Mathilda; letterer, Deron Bennett; editors, Dafna Pleban and Lewis Trondheim; publisher, kaboom!.