God Hates Astronauts vol. 3: Cosmic Apocalypse!

Let me see if I can recap things correctly here:  In the previous volume, little baby Starlina blew up her dad while on a sugar high while Admiral Tiger Eating a Cheesburger invaded the Earth and the Anti-Mugger was arrested for mugging!  This is all followed by Starlina being abducted by the inhabitants of the planet Super Gentendo 64 to be used as a power source for their next-gen upgrade, Sir Hippothesis leading the star-powered bear cavalry against the Eating a Cheesburger forces, and Starrior getting some ridiculous armor as she uses the assistance of Time Giraff to go back in time and bring (more than one version of) her husband to the present.  This is all in addition to the issue guest-narrated by Charles Soule, the cross-ghost-dimensional adventures of the fused Gnarled Winslow/Texas Tom, and Craymok shilling for Environmints — the mints that will (literally) take you places!  Who needs drugs when the summary of this volume sounds like a hallucinogenic fever dream!

You also start to wonder just how could creator Ryan Browne top the insanity on display in this volume.  As fun as this was, I’m starting to think that if this is going to be the final volume then that wouldn’t be so bad.  Chucking this kind of ridiculousness at the reader is going to get old after a while, and this volume is starting to crystalize Browne’s formula for characters and dialogue based on puns, pop culture references from the 80’s and 90’s, and movie quotes.  He may have ripped off the ending from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” wholesale for this volume, yet it still feels like an appropriate finish for a series as mental as this.  If this third volume is going to be the last one, then I can at least say that Browne has decided to quit while he was ahead here.