Aaron Strips #2

Aaron Warner's self-produced Image series keeps its irreverent energy rolling with issue #2, and the cover sets the tone immediately: a wide-eyed redhead in a blue shirt recoils in alarm as a grinning, manic figure leans out of a fast-food drive-thru window, sending french fries and a "Kiddy Meal" bag flying everywhere. The tagline — "Drive-Thru Girls Are a Captive Audience!" — promises the same gonzo, anything-goes humor that defines this one-man creative effort, with Warner handling every aspect of the book himself. If you've got a taste for late-'90s underground-flavored comedy comics, this is a scrappy, fun slice of what independent Image publishing looked like in 1997.