DIE!DIE!DIE! vol. 2: Near Mint

There’s a moment early in this volume that serves as a litmus test as to whether this volume (and really, the series overall) is for you.  Newly-promoted cabal head Sen. Connie Lipshitz is taking ideas from her fellow senators about initiatives to make life better for everyone in the U.S.A.  One senator talks about a birth-control drug that causes a woman to eject an egg during intercourse.  This egg would then lodge itself inside a man’s urethra where it would subsequently be fertilized and develop.  What greater purpose would this serve?  Well, it’d end both the abortion and health care debates since men would now have a very compelling reason to want both of these things to be as accessible as possible.

If you think that the idea of dick-babies is a winning mix of dumb, clever, and funny, and for the record I do, then vol. 2 of “DIE!DIE!DIE!” is definitely for you.  For those of you who need further clarification, this volume is as crass, over-the-top, and unrepentantly violent and left-wing as the first one was.  Co-writers Robert Kirkman and Scott Gimple are clearly having a blast writing this, and Chris Burnham is clearly on the same wavelength as all of the carnage, ridiculousness, and ridiculous carnage is quite lovingly detailed.  Yes, this series is also determined to alienate anyone who isn’t as liberal as its creators, but I’m fine with that.  They probably wouldn’t have been able to enjoy the sight of Obama boxing aliens in space for our freedom anyway.