Axe Cop #5

The imaginative brotherly duo of Malachai and Ethan Nicolle bring their wonderfully unhinged law enforcement hero front and center on this 2014 Dark Horse collection, subtitled Axe Cop Gets Married and Other Stories. The cover — penciled and inked by Ethan Nicolle and Ryan Browne — bursts with chaotic energy: Axe Cop himself leaps forward in his police uniform and star-badge cap, axe raised high, while two wild-eyed sidekick creatures flank him and a horde of grotesque monsters closes in from every direction. With a foreword by Nick Offerman and a story collecting "Ask Axe Cop" installments #71–#85, this volume is a fine showcase of the series' gleefully anarchic spirit.