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Title: Hip Flask: Unnatural Selection by Richard Starkings, Joe Casey, Ladronn, Active Images ISBN: 0-9740567-0-7 Publisher: Active Images Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: One of the most remarkable comic books you'll ever read
Comment: I don't read as many comics as I used to, and when I do I like them to be something different. Something a bit special. Something grown up. Something that need not be about humans with special powers. Something with artwork that is out of the ordinary, and with a story that, while accessible and
entertaining, is relevant and thought provoking.
Something like Unnatural Selection, in other words.
Unnatural Selection is a remarkable piece of work.
Its setting is a dark, dystopian future, with horrendous genetic experiments taking place on innocent human beings.
This Orwellian society is brainwashing its twisted creations to follow only the party line.
Yet out of this appalling situation appears a new kind of comic book hero - a talking hippopotamus.
Well, 'Hip' doesn't actually say anything in this first issue, but he is destined to become a futuristic Sam Spade, who just happens to be a hippo.
I first read this book in standard-sized comic book form, but the higher grade paper and larger format really does the artwork proud.
It reminds me of the feeling I got when I saw H.R. Giger's work for the first time. In some frames you're not instantly sure what's going on, and it's only after studying the image for a minute or so that what it shows becomes clear.
Horrifyingly clear, in the case of several images in Unnatural Selection. This is the sort of stuff that sticks in the mind long after you put the book down.
A criticism? The story, since it's an origin, doesn't really satisfy - butleaving the reader wanting more is no bad thing.
I'm keen to see where it all goes - but eager though I am I don't want the writers rushing out the next part of the story if it means compromising the quality...
(Footnote - Elephantmen, the second part of the Hip Flask series, is now available in standard comic format - and they didn't rush: it's cover-dated a year to the month since the first one!)