Lance Barnes, Post Nuke Dick

by Stefan Petrucha, Barry Crain (Artist)

Gasp as gumshoe Lance Barnes snips the wrong wire on an ICBM and ends the world! Screech as he guiltily wanders the post-nuke landscape with his one-legged secretary Peg! Thrill to the collected comic and a new text adventure! Read what Stan Lee called full of "amazing originality and off-beat humor!" Spend all your money on it! Includes the previously published mini series, as well as a brand new Lance illustrated short story by Lance creator (and X-Files scribe) Stefan Petrucha!

Genres: Comics

136 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2004

About the author

Stefan Petrucha (born January 27, 1959) is an American writer for adults and young adults. He has written graphic novels in the The X-Files and Nancy Drew series, as well as science fiction and horror.
Born in the Bronx, he has spent time in the big city and the suburbs, and now lives in western Massachusetts with his wife, fellow writer Sarah Kinney, and their daughters. At times he has been a tech writer, an educational writer, a public relations writer and an editor for trade journals, but his preference is for fiction in all its forms.

Reviews

[J.G. Keely · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of fun: clever, unpredictable, with some satire thrown in for good measure. The little in-jokes about super hero figures and comic cliches reminded me of Pat Mills' uproarious 'Marshal Law' series, but overall, the story's bleak, post-apocalyptic humor hit me just like the old Fallout games. And that's a compliment, mind you--one of the few cases where a videogame had writing superior to a lot of comics or books.

I wish Petrucha had done more comics, but I can appreciate the appeal of short and sweet. Crain's art is a lot of fun, and a great fit for the series, feeling like a mix of Mad Magazine and the cartoonish, detailed art of British anthologies like 2000AD.

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