Scout Comics 2018
Created & Written by Richard Rivera
Illustrated by Ryan Kincaid
Coloured by Liezl Buenaventura
Lettered by Jaymes Reed
This alternate reality version of Stabbity Bunny takes place nowhere near the world of the regular series. This is for those who crave unbridled mayhem and long to see the ultimate bunny fury unleashed! Stabbity takes on the fairyland inhabitants who stand in his way as he fights to rescue Grace from an evil sorcerer.
By now we all know what has been going on with Stabbity and that mum knows everything as well. So I love that she treats Stabbity as his own person whether he’s active or not. The opening here says or should I say shows us all we need to know well kind of. It is kind of a perfect series of unfortunate events as a portal opens a prototypical wizard pops through takes Grace and Stabbity follows on his own. Now we are off to the races as they say as Stabbity has work his way through this strange land to save Grace!
They say a picture is worth a thousand words and seeing Stabbity in this fairyland kind of place is almost picturesque. So it isn’t long until things start to head south for Stabbity. I mean c’mon this is just utterly fabulous and if you are a fan of Deadpool and it seems that half the population is at this time you need to do yourself a favour and start reading this. I love the tongue in cheek manner of the storytelling and the complete and utter irreverence that is shown in these pages. It is mindless violent fun in the most innocuous of ways imaginable and yes this is a completely meant for adults only which is perfect in my opinion.
I am always surprised and impressed by the fact that Richard is able to bring some much life and characterisation to Stabbity. Those that can talk well they are easy to flesh out through dialogue and then they actually assist in Stabbity’s characterisation is exceptional writing. I mean the only others who could do this as well were Wolfman & Perez when they created Jericho so Richard and Ryan are in damn company here. Still that smile on his face as he cuts a swath through fairyland and the fact we see his intelligence at the same time yeah this is why the whole thing works so well.
Ryan does some really nice work here. I can’t describe fairyland but I feel like this is the comics version of that we saw on Dirk Gently Season Two. I really do like that Ryan keeps everything kind of on an even keel, there isn’t anything different in the linework regardless of person, race or whatnot and that’s great to see. Also that this is ultra-violent but not gore centric is fantastic and I do like that when we do see the aftermath it looks like the rings in a tree. The utilisation of page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective shows off a strong eye for storytelling. While I would like to see more backgrounds it isn’t always possible.
At first I thought this might be a one-shot until the last page then I thought if this is going to be a limited series I'm so totally down for that. I mean who doesn’t love seeing Unicorns, Faeries and the like being sliced and diced with a Ginsu, careful the Slap Chop might come get ya! This pure adult entertainment, nearly mindless but amazingly well crafted and executed. You aren’t going to find this kind of stuff anywhere else.