Comic Review: Peckerwood: 24 Minutes

Peckerwood: 24 minutes

Written by: Rob Dunlop
Art by: Peter Lumby
Published by: Ablaze Media

Where would you expect to find a super slut hoping to break into porn, an adrenaline junkie with a claw hand, and a movie nut trying to keep them from starving between acting jobs or kicked out of their apartment by their naked landlord and religious guru? Where will you find an assassin who sells his image to a video game production company, and a gender-bending government special agent? Welcome to Peckerwood, the other movie capital of the world.

Peckerwood: 24 Minutes is a social satire couched in the spoofery of hit TV show 24 starring Kiefer Sutherland and containing rude, irreverent jokes and stereotypes. Be warned, this comic is not for children or sensitive adults, and if you could be offended if you forget it’s satire.

Peckerwood: 24 Minutes follows friends Tozzer, Rod, and Hornie as they get wrapped up in international, political intrigue. Hired by Agent Jack Ass of the Technical Weapons and Tactics agency (yep, that’s TWAT), he tells the three, “During a recent telephone conversation, a South Korean canned fruit terrorist mentioned a popular brand of confectionary. So, in this mission…I mean scene, we’ll be infiltrating the factory where this Crack Rock Candy is made.” It seems the mysterious Englishman hopes to strain relations between the US and China and panda Jet-Li is the focus of the plot.

Peckerwood is filled with similar surreal characters and situations, like the President of the United States being a teddy bear and Agent Ass becoming more feminine as the story progresses. Also unbelievable is the bizarre passage of time as the story is told in “real time” a la 24, but the events couldn’t possibly occur within the set time, mocking some of the reality pushing events within the 24 hour time period in the hit show.

Dunlop and Lumby have already been making names for themselves with Tozzer and company with his first series, Tozzer and the Invisible Lap Dancers and the follow up series, Tozzer 2. After reading Peckerwood: 24 Minutes, I plan on getting a hold of the two Tozzer books available at Amazon. Be sure to check out the previews readily available at http://www.tozzer.com/ where you can look at pages of the two Tozzer books as well as Peckerwood: 24 Minutes, which will be available June 2008. Be sure to check the April Previews for the order code. After all, you don’t find this sort or ribald wit and and whimsical insanity everyday…Well, unless you own plenty of Monty Python DVDs…