Butcher Baker: The Righteous Maker #1 Review

Title:	Butcher Baker: The Righteous Maker
Contributors:	Joe Casey Mike Huddleston
Publisher:	Image Comics
Issue #:	1
Year:	2011
Pages:	29 Pages (20 pages dedicated to the stroy)
Age Rating:	18 (Language, Violence, Gore, Nudity, Drugs, Sex, Adult Themes)
Story Grade:	A
Art Grade:	B

Butcher Baker: The Righteous Maker is a comic that violates all senses of decency, normalcy and morality... but what a fun ride it is. From the cover to the inside cover to the very last page, this book is nothing if not a direct homage to 70s grindhouse films.

This is a comic that starts with Jay Leno and Dick Cheney, yes they actually use these names and likenesses in the comic (and make no apologies), showing up to a retired superhero's private palace of orgies, drugs and spirits, knocking the cock-shaped door knocker (cock-knocker), and offer him three women as sexual servants so he will go kill all the supervillains he previously locked up.

Why would Leno and Cheney want to do that? Because it costs too much money to keep these supervillains locked up. And it is funny! Why else?

This is a comic that is equally mature in nature as it is juvenile in content; just like the 70s grindhouse films of years gone by. This is what Captain America would likely be if Marvel cut loose. And yes, Butcher Baker's superhero costume is a direct reference to Captain America's costume, if not an almost complete rip off. Joe Casey has a lot of fun with this character and pulls no punches in the story. He lets the Baker character's manliness shine freely and this makes reading "Butcher Baker: The Righteous Maker" a fun ride for a fan of the old 70s grindhouse films.

Huddleston's artwork is a fun crazy blend of frenzied black and whites mixed in with some selective use of color and a variety of different styles throughout the book, depending on the scene's mood. This really shows that Huddleston made the story his own through the art.

The big rig vs. cop-car sequence is big, energetic and fun in its execution. Huddleston dropped out all of the color except for the red, white and blue of the semi and the red of the gumball on top of the cop car. This added to the fun and comedic nature of the action sequence.

Some of the lines in the artwork didn't make a lick of sense, like the flames shooting out of the headlights of the semi,  But it really didn't do a lot to the scene. The artwork is just fun for the most part.

This book is a fun ride for those not easily offended by the 70s Grindhouse genre. It is obscene, ludacris, sexist and absolute fun. I graded this book a solid B+. Lots of nudity, sexual references, political and celebrity slandering and more excessive mature content than any book would ever need... and it's all in good fun.