Trapped in a world he's grown quite accustomed to! Howard the Duck returns courtesy of the sensational creative team of Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones - they're the duckiest! The furious fowl is taking on weird cases as the Marvel Universe's newest and most feathery private investigator, and his new job will take him everywhere from the Savage Land to across the cosmos! Howie shares offbeat adventures with Rocket Raccoon, Squirrel Girl, Gwenpool, She-Hulk and more - but his strangest case of all may just be the disappearance of Hollywood's Lea Thompson! What's a duck to do when the Ten Realms go to waugh...sorry, war?
Collecting Howard The Duck (2015a) #1-5, Howard The Duck (2015b) #1-11, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (2015b) #6, Howard The Duck (2023) #1 And Material From War Of The War Scrolls #1.
Chip Zdarsky is a Canadian comic book artist and journalist. He was born Steve Murray but is known by his fan base as Chip Zdarsky, and occasionally Todd Diamond. He writes and illustrates an advice column called Extremely Bad Advice for the Canadian national newspaper National Post's The Ampersand, their pop culture section's online edition. He is also the creator of Prison Funnies and Monster Cops.
I'm a big Howard Head, a member of the official Howard Flock, the guy at the head of the ol' Flying V Fan Club, and this is likely my favorite arc for the guy.
It's funny, it's got a few heartfelt moments, and every issue is packed with STUFF, like Howard removing his clothes and crawling around, going undercover as a duck in the park, only to discover that it turns out an all bread diet is quite fattening.
I appreciate that Marvel seemed willing to let this book dodge around the 2 major EVENTS that happened at this time, too, and I think they should take a lesson from this: You don't need to have EVERY book be a part of the event. It's fine. Howard the Duck doesn't need to be part of Secret Invasion or whatever, Crisis on Infinite Foil Variants or what have you.
Although I would like a Howard-centric event. That'd be like the ultimate, "Hey, we own all these properties, we can do whatever the fuck we want!"