Pulpman #6

Pulpman #6 from XTRA delivers another eccentric installment of Fred de Heij's irreverent Dutch comics anthology, with a cover that stops you cold — a serene, painterly Madonna-and-Child tableau rendered in warm Renaissance tones, except the infant is unmistakably the red-nosed, big-eyed Pulpman character, creating a wonderfully absurd collision of the sacred and the silly. De Heij handles both the writing and the full art duties throughout, and the cover teasers promise plenty of variety inside: "Kapitein Pulp Moet Niks," a Pulpjan family strip, a Petar Meseldzija revisited feature, Ray Murphy en Molluskhead, and an interview with Fufu Frauenwahl. At €8,95 this 2010 issue showcases the anthology's confident, wide-ranging personality in fine form.