@secondfallen616: There's lots of reasons to like Mike Allred! I mean Madman aside (because as you pointed out there have been several collections of all the different Madman runs he's done since creating him), if you like movies, you obviously like comics, then maybe you've seen Chasing Amy? Well all that awesome Bluntman & Chronic art was him; that was my first exposure to his art before I ever even got into comics and even then I knew I had to see more by this guy. How about music, you like rock and roll? Do yourself a favor and go get Red Rocket 7 immediately, it's only one book, albeit an oversized one that annoyingly won't fit on my shelves with the rest of my trades but who cares, it's amazing, long story short it follows an alien (and his twin brothers) through several decades of rock history as he makes a name for himself. Everyone from Elvis to Kurt Cobain shows up in this book in one way or another if i'm not mistaken; Allred obviously has a great deal of knowledge when it comes to rock history and this proves it. Lastly, just do it, get some Madman trades, the art is just so...ginchy, to use a Madman coined term. It just pops off the page so vibrantly and really a great deal of that credit also goes to his wife Laura's amazing coloring on those books. I dunno, theres really no other book like it, he jumps around town waxing philosophical on life and love and all matter of things all in between some weird ass situation he's in involving aliens, mutant beatniks and what have you, he's just great and has a style all his own.
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