Madman Boogaloo!

Madman Comics

by Mike Baron, Mike Baron, Steve Rude

Two of the wackiest crossovers in the tortured history of comics - Nexus Meets Madman and Madman/The Jam - are now stuffed kicking and screaming into a single package, bursting at the seams with rampaging robots, giant insects, optical illusions.

Contains: Nexus Meets Madman, Madman/The Jam #1-2

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

80 pages, Paperback

First published June 16, 1999

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Madman / Nexus crossover was pretty weak. It does have some awesome Steve Rude art though. The two-part crossover with Bernie Mireault's The Jam was much better. I found the descent into MC Escher's art inspired.

[Shaun Phelps · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book felt largely pointless. The Nexus half was basically nonsense. The Jam and Madman were enjoyable together and yet the plotline was fairly empty. Not really worth the effort of reading. I do hope the jam shows back up, though.

[StrictlySequential · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love the collaborators and the Canada but the story wasn't Five Star material

[Jipi Perreault · Rating 3 out of 5]

That was weird.

[D.M. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I only have this because it's Madman; I have little interest in either of the other characters or their creators. It collects the single-issue Madman/Nexus story, as well as the 2-issue Madman/Jam story.
The Nexus story was pretty dumb, and even brought the Madman character down to it's level, but the art was superb! The Jam story was a little better, and neat to look at (Allred's drawing Madman in Mireault's world), but came across as some teenage hero-worship (in this case, for M.C. Esher) infused into a pseudo-psychological superhero adventure.
Overall, not at all necessary to fans of any of these three characters, but certainly a lovely-looking collection.

[Printable Tire]

"The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future." - John Mason Browne

A fitting epigraph for at least the first mind-numbingly insipid story in this collection. The second story, featuring M.C. Escher and a gung-ho wannabe Canadian superhero named "The Jam," fairs much better.

[B · Rating 3 out of 5]

The one with the Jam was a little better because the Jam was a more interesting character. And the Allred art was interesting.

But the Escher stuff didn't really seem to work and the first story was just OK. (There was a time when Perot jokes were the bee's knees but they don't age well.)

[Ken · Rating 5 out of 5]

More Allred fun!

[Matt Sabonis · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun couple of side stories. Especially entertaining is the Madman/Jam story.