Tying in with the best geek TV of the moment*, and with James Gunn credited, vaguely, as 'story consultant', the two stories here take place firmly in the world of the show. Or at least I assume they do, I don't think I've read anything with the non-cowboy Vigilante since the Alan Moore issues and DC must have reset the continuity a dozen times since then. Anyway, this feels a lot like the questionable neurodiversity representation of screen Adrian, overly literal and a bit clueless, which only makes him more insanely dangerous, so that when Peacemaker fobs him off with a voicemail he interprets it as a hurried warning and goes after a robot conspiracy he's more or less invented from whole cloth, eventually sending him up against two crime lords who were genuinely trying to go straight. It's all delightfully ridiculous to start with, and ever more so as it goes along.
In the other half of the comic, Chris Smith** comes in shouting "Eat peace, motherfuckers!" while punching right through the face of a Nazi lizard, so you know there's the same commitment to being at once gloriously stupid and quietly smart which the programme does so well. But the story of the nice relaxing holiday he takes after that felt, for me, a little thin next to the Vigilante stuff. Though not without its laughs, for sure, especially given the prominent role for Eagley taken in conjunction with the guy I know who reckons he could beat an eagle in a fight.
*And it's not even close.
**Nobody except me seems sufficiently amused that this is also the name of the new head of Cambridge University.