Scud: The Disposable Assassin Vol. 2 - Programmed For Damage

Scud: The Disposable Assassin #5-9

by Rob Schrab, Mondy Carter, Dan Harmon

Issues 5-9 of Scud: The Disposable Assassin. This is the only place you'll ever be able to find issue 5. PLUS: Foreward by Mondy Carter. Idiot guides to cast list and Jeff samples. "Scud in a nut shell." Original sketches of Scud characters. Prose from Dan Harmon, the mail room marauder. This book relives Scud's journey down south, his rematch with Jeff, his human arm, his introduction to Drywall and his brief stint with an afro.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

152 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

From Wikipedia: Rob Schrab (pronounced "SHROB") is a comic book creator, actor, comedian, writer, and film and television producer. Schrab grew up in Mayville, Wisconsin. He is known as the creator of the comic book, Scud: The Disposable Assassin, co-writer of the feature film Monster House, the unaired pilot Heat Vision and Jack, competitive film festival Channel 101 and the co-creator of Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program.

He directed on all three seasons of The Sarah Silverman Program and has directed episodes of Childrens Hospital, Blue Mountain State, Community, and Parks and Recreation.

Reviews

[Benjamin Uke · Rating 4 out of 5]

Starts off with a voodoo godfather (secretly Benjamin Franklin) fighting the mafia who have our protagonist robot assassin on their side...
Also he resurrects a T-rex, zombies are harder to kill if they have a brain the size of a pea. And a crapton of other dinosaurs. This was written in 1997. For those not tracking American comic books, 1993 was the year Superman died and Venom got his own series. Just keep that in mind.
4/5
An acquired taste, I missed the full-frontal insanity.

[Belarius · Rating 4 out of 5]

Scud's Volume 2 is essentially very much like Scud's Volume 1, only more.

Everything I said about the first volume of Scud applies here, except more. The characters are even stranger, the action is even more cinematic, and the references are even more plentiful and obscure. Having found his stride this is Rob Schrab at full volume.

Additionally, Programmed For Damage introduces the character of Drywall, who is extremely difficult to dislike. Perhaps even impossible.

If you liked #1, get #2 (and #3) immediately. It's that simple.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read two issues of Scud back when they were new in the 1990s, but lost track of the series. Very excited to see the author's finally getting around to completing the story, and just stumbled across a dirt-cheap copy of "Programmed for Destruction." Seriously off-the-wall, though: If you're not prepared to simply accept the reality of vending-machine assassins, villains with drooling mouths in their kneecaps or dogs for heads, you might want to skip Scud. Better and weirder and funnier than I remembered, and I can't wait to get my hands on the rest.

[Matt Piechocinski · Rating 3 out of 5]

The 3 stars is for Drywall, who is an awesome character. I so wanted to like this series, but now I'm just going through the motions of finishing the run. Largely forgettable.