Sweatshop #6

Peter Bagge's rubbery, anarchic cover art sets the perfect tone for this November 2003 DC comedy series — the bright yellow background practically vibrates as a wild cast of exaggerated characters collide in gleeful chaos, with bug-eyed faces, gaping mouths, and a hapless figure hunched over a laptop getting swallowed up in the mayhem. The headline "It's a Bowling Family Reunion!" promises exactly the kind of gloriously dysfunctional family dynamics suggested by the story title "I Have No Son!" Sweatshop #6 is a fine entry point into one of DC's more delightfully offbeat humor titles of the early 2000s.