Rocket Blues #[1]

A wild-eyed, pompadoured figure in a star-spangled white jumpsuit rockets across a deep purple night sky astride a skull-faced missile, trailing green exhaust — and it's hard not to grin at the sheer audacity of that image. Rocket Blues: Matjes oder Bismarck is a 2010 Beatcomix release written by Mamei and Ivo Kircheis, with Kircheis handling all the linework from pencils to lettering. The cover alone — rendered with loose, energetic ink lines against that glowing amber moon — promises something irreverent, inventive, and thoroughly its own thing.