Scud: Tales from the Vending Machine

Doug TenNapel and Jim Mahfood anchor this offbeat Fireman Press series, which launched in 1998 and ran for five issues. Scud: Tales from the Vending Machine expands the world of the wisecracking, vending-machine-dwelling robot assassin, blending TenNapel's signature surrealism with Mahfood's kinetic, graffiti-inspired art. A cult-favorite oddity, it stands as a key artifact of late-'90s indie comics, showcasing the raw, inventive energy that defined that era's alternative scene.